Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The emperor wears no clothes.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Bitcoin will be perceived as a risk asset by "financial professionals" until the day it is properly recognized as THE ASSET. Gradually, then suddenly.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #198
• terra "stablecoin" blows up
• treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io
• cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit
• coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss
• chainalysis valued at $8.6B
• joinmarket v0.9.6
• arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client
• casa launches api
• rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal
• conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch
• spiral post on supporting open source
• georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans
• grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf
• costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks

PODCASTS

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #1206: Hashprice at lowest point since November 2020
• Tuesday - Issue #1207: Reminder to get your bitcoin off the exchange
• Wednesday - Issue #1208: What you're witnessing is the cascading of interconnected risk
• Thursday -
• Friday - Issue #1209: Expect ASIC prices to remain relatively elevated in this bear market