Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Don’t tell me what to do with my bitcoin.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
One day the surveillance tools most bitcoin exchanges and services use will be made public. When that day comes you will realize why I am a broken record about better bitcoin privacy guarantees.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #106
• Samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch
• report from shinobi
• report from samourai team
• Timing attacks on Lightning Network
• Twitter hacked
• Surveillance company report on the movements from hacker's bitcoin address
• Taproot activation discussion
• Coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and IRS
• Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1
• Zeus v0.3.0
• Bisq v1.3.6
• BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3
• Specter v0.5.5
• Ronin Dojo v1.5
• Samourai Dojo v1.7.0
• Tallycoin v2.1
• Bitcoin difficulty hits new all time high

• Blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare
• Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis
• Zap raises $3.5M
• Forbes article
• Announcement blog
• Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns
• List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_
• Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons
• Russian Activists using bitcoin
• What It’s Really Like to Live on Bitcoin in the Middle East
• A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery
• Microsoft and the police state
• Mitre Corp surveillance programs

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Ethan Vera

• Mining pools
• Their historical lack of transparency
• Pool fee negotiations
• ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization
• Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency
• Profit switching between chains
• Whitelisted pools
• Hashrateindex.com

Kevin Mulcrone

• Free Banking Systems of the past
• The Civil War + banking in America
• Building Lily Wallet
• Lily's plans for the future
• Live music + blue grass

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #779: This is a problem
• Tuesday - Issue #780: A Reminder: End The Fed
• Wednesday - Issue #781: Taproot activation discussion
• Thursday - Issue #782: Mining is more distributed than previously thought
• Friday - Issue #783: Insanity continues unabated