Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Electricity usage shouldn’t be moralized.

Thought of the week from ODELL:
A benefit of being active in the global bitcoin community is we now have family on every continent in the world.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #202
• New York State passes bitcoin mining ban
• Kenya’s largest power provider to offer geothermal energy to bitcoin miners
• The Biden administration is teeing up policy recommendations to lower cryptocurrency mining’s energy consumption and emissions footprint
• Russia considering bitcoin for international settlement
• Seed Tool v1.0.7
• Robosats integrates openpgp encrypted chat
• Biden admin considering bitcoin mining regulation
• Yellen backtracking on “transitory inflation”
• Europe cutting off Russian oil
• FFR rate of change https://twitter.com/pladizow/status/1532433765846249472
• New Block Inc. report

PODCASTS

Wringing of the Rag  

• Monday - Issue #1217: Q1 2022 Monetary Base update
• Tuesday - Issue #1218: Bitcoin awareness is very high. Better education is needed
• Wednesday - Issue #1219: They're either incompetent, liars, or incompetent liars
• Thursday - Issue #1220: The rate of change of the Federal Fund Rate is unprecedented
• Friday - Issue #1221: Bitcoin is the digital Galt's Gultch