Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Critical thinking is imperative moving forward.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
People are the weak point of most of our systems. The only real solutions are open systems and tools with no central entity in control.

Don't ask why someone you disagree with hasn't been blocked yet, ask why they can be blocked in the first place.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #119
• LND vulnerability
• DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption
• Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, So These Activists Are Using Bitcoin
• OKEx suspends withdrawals
• Taproot merged into Bitcoin Core
• BitMEX cofounder released on $5M bond
• BitMEX hires new compliance officer
• Indian exchanges working together to provide stricter KYC/AML compliance
• Spain potential law forcing full disclosure of bitcoin holdings
• Coinbase releases government request transparency report

• Unchained adds coldcard support
• myNode v0.2.17
• Nodl v0.1.1f
• RTL v0.9.1-beta
• Eclair v0.4.2
• JoinMarket v0.7.1
• Trezor Suite Public Beta
• Electrum v4.0.4
• Stone Ridge $115M bitcoin investment
• Fidelity recommends 5% position in bitcoin
• Fidelity privacy panel with Matt
• Marathon announces new 105 Megawatt bitcoin mining op
• BitMEX on the risks of brain wallets
• lnresearch data
• MuSig2 paper
• WORDS September Bitcoin Journal

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Adam Soltys

• Local ISPs
• Coinos.io
• Lightning
• Liquid
• Tokens
• Security tradeoffs

Whitney Webb

• Chile
• Operation Warp Speed
• Intelligence Agencies
• Defense contractors
• Big Pharma connections
• History of the CIA
• Operation Dark Winter
• Color Revolutions
• Overcoming the Conspiracy Theorist label
• Epstein as a pawn in a bigger game

Ansel Linder

• 2015 + 2016 bear market
• Different iterations of altcoins
• Fed Policy
• Is QE inflationary or deflationary
• How does Fed policy affect Bitcoin?

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #843: Output Descriptors will make life easier
• Tuesday - Issue #844: Why do we put up with this?
• Wednesday - Issue #845: Understanding Bitcoin's Roots
• Thursday - Issue #846: First they came for Alex Jones...
• Friday - Issue #847: Smorgasbord Friday