The Sat Standard - October 3rd, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
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Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Matt read my mind and posted my thought of the week.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Lack of strong privacy guarantees are bitcoin's biggest weakness. Making private bitcoin usage easier, more accessible, and more effective would make bitcoin even better money and as a result should lead to an increase in adoption and therefore price.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #117
- BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice
- KuCoin hacked for $150M
- New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info from local exchanges
- Chainalysis and Integra FEC receive IRS contracts for lightning and monero tracing
- September bitcoin privacy newsletter by Janine
- Murchandamus joins Chaincode
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.18
- The Eye of Satoshi v0.1.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.6
- Aqua Wallet by blockstream
- CoinOS web wallet with liquid and lightning support
- CalyxOS released
- Taproot explainer by suredbits
- HCPP this weekend
- Ministry of Nodes also thinks specter is straight fire
- Griefing Attacks
- Circuit Breaker
- Routing on Lightning
- Multi-Path Payments + Wumbo
- Public v. Private channel capacity
- Whatsat
- Multiple implementations and how they interact
- Cynthia's platform of fiscal responsibility
- Cynthia's experience Wyoming's state Treasurer
- How Bitcoin can help with fiscal responsibility
- How Bitcoin can help pensions
- How Bitcoin can help the energy sector
- How Bitcoin embodies the ideals America was founded on
- The work Wyoming has done to welcome Bitcoin innovators
- There are good people in Washington
- State's rights
- The Lockdowns
- The Constitution
- The Government v. The State
- Bitcoin didn't ask for permission
- Are leftists insane?
- Should you vote?
- Smart contracts
- America's Culture War
- Are we in a Civil War?
- When did the Civil War start
- Miners are Energy Pirates
- How mining companies should manage their balance sheets
- Art
- Digital Art
- NFTs
- Literature
- Building on Ethereum
- Ethereum's limitations
- ETH 2.0 transition
- DeFi on Ethereum, is it legit?
- Non-custodial DeFi on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin + DLCs
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #833: Articulating priorities; perspective of a Bitcoin Core/Lightning Dev
- Tuesday - Issue #834: GLV Endomorphism, efficiency, and patents
- Wednesday - Issue #835: The Empire as we knew it fell years ago
- Thursday - Issue #836: The CFTC charges BitMEX for skirting KYC/AML compliance
- Friday - Issue #837: Thread on different scaling tradeoffs
