Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
When you turn off the news and walk outside. Things aren’t as bad as they seem. The corporate media is a DOS attack on sanity.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
I often hear "bitcoin doesn't interest me, I'm not a finance person."

Ironically, the beauty of bitcoin is you don't have to be. In the current system you're expected to manage a diversified investment portfolio or pay someone to do it. Good money makes that optional.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #101
• HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient
• Coldcard v3.1.4 firmware
• Mitigates BIP-143 vuln without breaking software support
• Adds BIP-85: the ability to create child seeds from your master seed
• Improves QR display
• Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support
• Android APK
• Developer Signature
• PGP Key
• Electrum Personal Server v0.2.1.1
• Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC
• Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A
• List of no KYC exchanges

• Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet
• CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released
• Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares
• Bitcoin is Antifragile by Parker Lewis
• Canadian exchange Coinsquare alleged wash trading
• China OTC crackdown
• Brave browser ref link autocomplete
• Pentagon War Game ZBellion
• Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy
• Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Chris Belcher

• JoinMarket
• Fidelity Bonds
• Chain analysis heuristics
• Chris' CoinSwap design
• A "privacy threshold"
• Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins

Alex Bosworth

• Why exchanges should use Lightning
• Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam
• Managing a Lightning routing node
• The nuance of payment channels
• Lightning Loop
• Lightning's evolution with the fee market
• Creating standards for Lighting
• Lightning + privacy

Will Cole

• Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin
• Wyoming as a Citadel haven
• Working at Stack Overflow
• Bitcoin Stack Exchange
• Joining Unchained Capital
• Working on collaborative custody products
• Caravan Version 2
• Hermit
• Future bitcoin products

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #754: The danger of the collective "we"
• Tuesday - Issue #755: Bitcoin will bring back value investing
• Wednesday - Issue #756: The backbone of society is being destroyed
• Thursday - Issue #757: Jeff Booth indirectly explains why Jerome Powell is wrong
• Friday - Issue #758: Another exciting week for Bitcoin fundamentals