The Sat Standard - July 25th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
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Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Bitcoin isn’t everything critics want it to be out of the box and that’s okay. It actually may be a benefit because it can only get better in time.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
It would only take a few days of the stock market dumping while bitcoin pumps for a compelling safe haven narrative to emerge. Bitcoin price consolidation over the last few months would seem to make this scenario more likely.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #107
- Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then deleted
- OXTResearch analysis of twitter hacker's wasabi usage
- Major exchanges working on a KYC data sharing agreement to satisfy demands from FATF
- BitMEX provides $50K grant to Jeremy Rubin
- US Banks can now custody bitcoin
- Utreexo demonstration release
- RaspiBlitz v1.6 release candidate 3 adds IP2TOR
- Eye of Satoshi v0.1.0
- Aaron Van Wirdum on Taproot activation
- Testing and improving asmap
- myNode Stack by bitcoinqna
- Samourai Stack by bitcoinqna
- Great threads from @dannydiekroeger
- Bitcoin Deemed ‘Money’ Under D.C. Financial Services Law
- Californian man pleads guilty to money laundering
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance
- CIA can launch offensive cyber attacks more easily now
- Air Force flying surveillance ops over Portland
PODCASTS
- Zach's experience at Obelisk
- Nuance of hardware manufacturing in China v. US
- Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets
- Why airgapping is important
- The Passport
- QR code standards and statelessness
- How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware
- The importance of making hardware locally
- Future products from Foundation Devices
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #784: A year of reckoning
- Tuesday - Issue #785: Bitcoin basics threads
- Wednesday - Issue #786: Utreexo moves forward
- Thursday - Issue #787: Bitcoin gaining traction in emerging markets
- Friday - Issue #788: Time to jump cultural S-curves
