Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The FUD is about to turn up with the Bitcoin price. Be prepared to combat the low-knowledge "bitcoin is for drug dealers", "Bitcoin is boiling the oceans", and "Bitcoin will lead to a deflationary spiral" types. Luckily, we are better prepared than ever to completely destroy these weak talking points.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
2013: accept bitcoin for goods and services but immediately convert it to USD

2020: accept USD for goods and services but immediately convert it to bitcoin

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PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Ryan Gentry

• Austin, Texas
• Ryan's time at Intel
• Chip fabs
• Proof of Work as an essential component of cryptocurrencies
• The Order of Operations necessary to create a truly distributed cryptocurrency
• Reading white papers
• Will Ethereum scale?
• Lightning Pool
• Shadow Pools
• A LN yield curve

Tom Trevethan

• Statechains
• Mercury Wallet
• Trust tradeoffs
• Privacy gains
• Fee structure
• Custodial tradeoff
• Use cases

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #858: Bitcoin: timestamping history
• Tuesday - Issue #859: *Lightning Pool has entered the room*
• Wednesday - Issue #860: Bitcoin is climbing the ranks
• Thursday - Issue #861: Dollar dumping, bitcoin pumping
• Friday - Issue #862: Square sold a lot of bitcoin again