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
