The Sat Standard - May 2nd, 2020

Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Count how many times you hear the phrases "new normal" and "social distancing" this week. Conditioning, man.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The number of unemployed Americans is now equivalent to the total population of the 15 largest US cities combined.

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CardCoins sponsoring core developer
BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2
ColdCard Kitchen

OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group
ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware
LND v0.10-beta
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PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Amiti Uttarwar

How Amiti came to find Bitcoin
Getting into Bitcoin Core development
Learning C++
Amiti's work on rebroadcasting
Protecting privacy at the P2P level
Nuance of mempools
Current state of Bitcoin

Openoms

How Openoms came to find Bitcoin
Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners
JoininBox
JoinMarket
Fidelity Bonds
Privacy on Lightning
Broadcast transactions privately

Matt Ahlborg

How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US
How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money
Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina
Argentina's history of capital controls
Cuevas
Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?
Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya
Bitcoin usage in India