Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Matt read my mind and posted my thought of the week.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Lack of strong privacy guarantees are bitcoin's biggest weakness. Making private bitcoin usage easier, more accessible, and more effective would make bitcoin even better money and as a result should lead to an increase in adoption and therefore price.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #117
• BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice
• KuCoin hacked for $150M
• New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info from local exchanges
• Chainalysis and Integra FEC receive IRS contracts for lightning and monero tracing
• September bitcoin privacy newsletter by Janine
• Murchandamus joins Chaincode

• nix-bitcoin v0.0.18
• The Eye of Satoshi v0.1.1
• BTCPay Server v1.0.5.6
• Aqua Wallet by blockstream
• CoinOS web wallet with liquid and lightning support
• CalyxOS released
• Taproot explainer by suredbits
• HCPP this weekend
• Ministry of Nodes also thinks specter is straight fire

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Joost Jager

• Griefing Attacks
• Circuit Breaker
• Routing on Lightning
• Multi-Path Payments + Wumbo
• Public v. Private channel capacity
• Whatsat
• Multiple implementations and how they interact

Cynthia Lummis

• Cynthia's platform of fiscal responsibility
• Cynthia's experience Wyoming's state Treasurer
• How Bitcoin can help with fiscal responsibility
• How Bitcoin can help pensions
• How Bitcoin can help the energy sector
• How Bitcoin embodies the ideals America was founded on
• The work Wyoming has done to welcome Bitcoin innovators
• There are good people in Washington

Stephan Kinsella

• State's rights
• The Lockdowns
• The Constitution
• The Government v. The State
• Bitcoin didn't ask for permission
• Are leftists insane?
• Should you vote?
• Smart contracts

Junseth

• America's Culture War
• Are we in a Civil War?
• When did the Civil War start
• Miners are Energy Pirates
• How mining companies should manage their balance sheets
• Art
• Digital Art
• NFTs
• Literature

Matthew Black

• Building on Ethereum
• Ethereum's limitations
• ETH 2.0 transition
• DeFi on Ethereum, is it legit?
• Non-custodial DeFi on Bitcoin
• Bitcoin + DLCs

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #833: Articulating priorities; perspective of a Bitcoin Core/Lightning Dev
• Tuesday - Issue #834: GLV Endomorphism, efficiency, and patents
• Wednesday - Issue #835: The Empire as we knew it fell years ago
• Thursday - Issue #836: The CFTC charges BitMEX for skirting KYC/AML compliance
• Friday - Issue #837: Thread on different scaling tradeoffs