The Sat Standard - October 24th, 2020

Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
We live in a world where the incompetent lead the ignorant.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The travel rule will require invasive information sharing between companies for transactions greater than $250.

The travel rule is extremely dangerous for users. Any company that chooses to comply without pushing back against regulators is part of the problem. It is that simple.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #120
• Travel rule white paper & participants
• Travel rule threshold to be reduced to $250 from $3000
• Two LND vulnerabilities disclosed
• v0.9 and below
• v0.10 and below
• Paypal adds "bitcoin"
• Our boy Paul shills the corn again
• FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M

• BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8
• Bisq v1.4.2
• Phoenix v1.4.0
• Breez RC1
• Tails v4.12
• Tor browser v10.0.2
• Raspiblitz v1.6.1
• Sparrow v0.9.6
• Voltage cloud lightning node service launched
• Hodl Hodl adds P2P bitcoin lending support
• BitMEX speeding up KYC process
• Bitcoin hit piece by CNAS
• Thai authorities attempting to block access to telegram

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Max Keidun

• HodlHodl's new non-custodial loan product
• How lenders and borrowers interact
• How HodlHodl's lending product differs from DeFi
• What stablecoins are available
• Prediction markets
• Liquid
• RGB
• Integration with Blue Wallet

Dave Collum

• Cancel culture
• Modern day journalism
• COVID-19
• Lockdowns
• Vaccines
• The Election
• Censorship

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #848: Multsig appreciation day
• Tuesday - Issue #849: CMBS Market on the Ropes
• Wednesday - Issue #850: The taxes are too damn high!
• Thursday - Issue #851: Bitcoin, a reason to be optimistic.
• Friday - Issue #852: Brief thoughts on the new Square Crypto Grant