Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
There is so much yet to be explored in the mining industry.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
How do we encourage corporate bitcoin stakeholders to be responsible stewards of the network?

Is it even possible?
Is it necessary or simply preferred?
Are they a net benefit or a threat?

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #118
• LND vulnerability found, please update your nodes ASAP
• Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin
• New Europol report
• Travel rule rumors swirl
• New DoJ framework
• HMRC orders coinbase to hand over customer records
• Chainalysis hits Mex with high risk warning
• BitMEX leadership changes
• bitcoinprivacy.guide
• Schnorr summary by Suredbits

• Specter v0.8.1
• Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.1.5
• Blockstream Green desktop v0.0.4
• Sparrow v0.9.5
• BlueWallet v5.6.1
• BTCPay server v1.0.5.7
• Hexa Wallet v1.2.0
• Fully Noded v0.1.90
• Ledger live adding coin control and full node support
• Riot Blockchain buys 2500 S19 Pros
• $26 million in Bitfinex stolen bitcoin moves
• Mempool.space sponsors
• Classroom surveillance on the rise with the rona as the excuse

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Edward Evenson

• Mining pools
• The race to zero profitability for pools
• Value add services pools provide
• The future of mining pools
• Firmware products
• PPS v. FPPS v. PPLNS
• Cheese
• Wine

Leo Zhang

• The Alchemy of Hashpower
• Stakeholders within the mining industry
• ASICs as physical options on bitcoin
• Bitmain's struggles
• MicroBT
• Hashrate derivatives
• The US and China
• Family

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #838: Fundamentals, who needs them?
• Tuesday - Issue #839: Signs of a mature market?
• Wednesday - Issue #840: Some industry participants are enemies of Bitcoin
• Thursday - Issue #841: The mad dash for bitcoins heats up
• Friday - Issue #842: Be the change you want to see in the world