Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The biggest downward difficulty adjustment in Bitcoin’s history just happened.  Great time to
be a miner.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Hardware seems very cheap right now. Consider mining at home.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #155
• Athena to install 1500 bitcoin atms in el salvador
• Bisq v1.7.0
• Cwtch beta released
• Strike adds buy and hold support
• Largest downward difficulty adjustment yesterday at 27.9%

• Proposal for federated blind lightning mints
• Nuclear powered mining in South Carolina
• Niftynei on dual funded channels and privacy
• Iranian government exempts 30 mining operators amid moratorium
• Binance adds travel rule tool from ciphertrace
• Nearly all 700M linkedin users exposed in API compromise
• Microsoft executive testifies that they receive 7 to 10 requests a day to provide info on US citizens to the government

PODCASTS

Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Leo Zhang

• Is this mining ban real?
• How are Chinese miners reacting?
• The dynamics of communication between the Chinese and Western mining industries
• How will this migration affect hashrate in the short and medium term?
• What does this mean for the market for ASICS?
• What does capacity in the US look like right now?
• Hashrate derivatives

Edward Evenson

• The great hashrate migrations
• What Chinese miners are looking for in co-location partners
• The 100 year anniversary of the CCP and its significance
• Will mining return to China?
• How well is hashrate being distributed as a product of this migration?
• Braiins update

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #1021: This week should bring with it the biggest difficulty adjustment in Bitcoin's history
• Tuesday - Issue #1022: Chaumian mints could improve Lightning Network wallets
• Wednesday - Issue #1023: This was predictable
• Thursday - Issue #1024: Bitcoin is winning because it is better
• Friday - Issue #1025: Liberty will reign supreme because of Bitcoin