Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Bitcoin is the currency of energy. The world has been looking for an energy backed currency for some time and Bitcoin finally makes it possible.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Collaborative transactions can significantly improve user privacy by including multiple parties in a single batched bitcoin transaction. The most common type of collaborative transaction is called a coinjoin.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #141
• Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl
• Podcasting 2.0 on breez
• Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on top of bitcoin mainnet
• FTX closing $7M per year deal for Miami Heat Arena
• Fidelity files for a bitcoin etf
• Lolli raises $5M from Serena Williams and her husband
• FATF releases enhanced KYC guidelines
• Coincenter analysis
• CFTC fines coinbase $6.5M for litecoin bullshit

• JoininBox v0.3.3
• RoninDojo v1.9.0
• Sparrow Walet v1.3.1
• Tails v4.17
• Sphinx relay v2.0.6
• BlueWallet v6.0.7
• Specter DIY v1.5.0
• eznode simple pruning-friendly setup for a personal bitcoin full node
• New liquid wallet sideswap released
• Test release of coinswaps statechain implementation
• Bisq meeting on moving to layer 2 networks

PODCASTS

Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

David Bailey

• How bullish is David?
• How high will bitcoin go?
• Timing the birth of his children up with bull markets
• Bitcoin 2021 events
• Bitcoin 2021 location
• Bitcoin Magazine content

Bob McElrath

• NY BitDevs
• Mining pools
• P2Pool
• Braidpool
• Making decentralized pools viable
• How they may fail
• Adversarial thinking
• Bob's Bitcoin journey

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #954: Bitcoin; fulfilling the vision of "Web 3.0"
• Tuesday - Issue #955: The FATF demons are back
• Wednesday - Issue #956: Mobile mining FT(long-term)
• Thursday - Issue #957: How do we decentralize mining pools?
• Friday - Issue #958: Censorship is inevitable with trusted third parties