The Sat Standard - April 3rd, 2021
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
2 min read
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Don’t let them tell you there’s no inflation.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Tracking bitcoin users is a very profitable business. Chainalysis just raised $100M at a $2 BILLION valuation for doing just that. Their former CTO now runs the US Government's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Agency (FinCEN).
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #142
- Coldcard physical attack (requires special lab equipment and multiple days, coldcards sold in the last ten months not affected)
- Coldcard v4.01 (Contains a security fix unrelated to the above. Please upgrade ASAP.)
- Circle and Poloniex to provide IRS data on customers
- Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives
- Strike launches in El Salvador without banking partners
- Azteco adds lightning
- Goldman to start offering bitcoin exposure to rich clients
- Morgan Stanley prepping to add bitcoin exposure to major funds
- Brink's first round of dev grants
- Gemini provides grant to mempool.space
- Specter v1.3.0
- Bisq v1.6.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.7.1
- sphinx-relay v2.0.8
- c-lightning v0.10.0
- MyNode v0.2.29
- Umbrel v0.3.8
- Zeus v0.5.1
- JoininBox v0.3.4
- Wasabi v1.1.12.7
- HWI v2.0.1
- Chainalysis raises $100M, valued at $2B
- Canada increases KYC requirements
- Lightning node performance tests
- Probing lightning channels paper
- Largest KYC leak ever from MobiKwik in India
- GBTC still trading at discount
- Bitcoin transcripts hub
- This month in bitcoin privacy
- SuredBits Multi Oracle deep dive
- Coinbase to go public on Nasdaq on April 14th
PODCASTS
- Ledn's recent raise
- Proof of Reserves
- Risk Management
- Duration matching
- Hyperinflation
- Good people succeeding
- Bitcoin scaling in layers
- Ledn users sending within the platform
- The Petro
Wringing of the Rag
- Monday - Issue #959: 100M more individuals harmed by KYC/AML
- Tuesday - Issue #960: DLCs, scaling sat streaming, & Tesla contributing to FOSS
- Wednesday - Issue #961: Gradually, then suddenly: Authoritarianism
- Thursday - Issue #962: The market for money IS the meta market
- Friday - Issue #963: Don't let fear rule your life
