Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The better your money is at storing value, the more useful that money will be as a medium of exchange and unit of account. Few.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Governments considering bitcoin restrictions?

usewhirlpool.com then werunbitcoin.com then nokyconly.com going forward.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #127
• Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto
• Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions
• G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations
• Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet
• Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self custody
• French Finance Ministry to enact stricter bitcoin regs
• Elliptic releases press release associating bitcoin privacy wallets with criminal intent
• Mass Mutual buys $100M worth of bitcoin
• Microstrategy borrowing money to buy more bitcoin

• c-lightning v0.9.2
• RoninDojo v1.8.0
• Specter v0.10.4
• Zap Android v0.3.6
• Sparrow Wallet v0.9.9
• Ledger Live adds easy bitcoin core full node support
• Bullish yearly survey from Blockchain Capital
• First multi-transaction CoinSwap test by Chris Belcher
• Lightning Network deanonymization paper
• BTC-e Operator sentenced to 5 years
• The Battle for P2SH
• Bitcoin Dissidents Editorial
• BTC Mag drops Top 21 in 2020 list
• Tutanota ordered to break encryption

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Keith Levine

• Punk Rock in the 1970s/1980s
• Parallels between England in the early 80s and 2020
• Record Labels as a centralizing force
• Bitcoin as a force for good
• Time preference
• Great American Mining
• Streaming payments

Jimmy Song

• Sound Money as a moral imperative
• How easy money corrupts society
• The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil
• Serving money or God
• Positivism v. Natural Rights
• Jesus flipping the table and kicking out the moneychangers

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #882: 2020 - The Year of the Great Heist
• Tuesday - Issue #883: World Peace is attainable because of Bitcoin
• Wednesday - Issue #884: A CoinSwap on testnet
• Thursday - Issue #885: It's time to make a stand
• Friday - Issue #886: Something to strive for