The Sat Standard - November 14th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
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Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
It feels like things are about to get weird. A US Senator has endorsed bitcoin as a store of value, Lightning is truly blossoming, and the world has never been more receptive to an alternative to our flailing political and monetary systems.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Sats per minute and sats per view becoming the digital monetization standard would be absolutely massive for user privacy.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #123
- Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec
- sats per minute coming to your favorite podcast app
- Ledger Phishing Email analysis
- Paypal fully launches bitcoin support to all users but you cannot take custody
- Massive intentional Apple privacy vulnerability exposed
- Nodl v0.1.2
- Fully Noded Desktop v0.2.1
- Sparrow v0.9.7
- myNode v0.2.18
- Umbrel v0.2.14
- RTL v0.9.3
- Adam Gibson on wasabi 2.0
- WORDS Bitcoin Journal October 2020
- OKEx issues could be a CCP power play
- EU anti encryption draft resolution
- Hodl Hodl opens up their non custodial bitcoin lending service to US customers
- Blockseer pro-censorship mining pool proposed
- Chainalysis increases government partnerships
PODCASTS
- Financial regulations
- The Bank Secrecy Act
- FATF
- Money laundering
- Cypherpunk v. Financialization
- A bifurcated network inevitable
- TradeLayer
- Op Codes
Wringing of the Rag
- Monday - Issue #863: Can the Lightning Network help keep podcasting decentralized?
- Tuesday - Issue #864: Negative yielding debt surges behind the scenes
- Wednesday - Issue #865: A sign of things to come?
- Thursday - Issue #866: Bitcoin's Hero's Journey
- Friday - Issue #867: Extreme ownership brings extreme motivation
