Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
States are leading the way. This is a beautiful thing.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
You should have more bitcoin than you had last week. Stay humble and stack.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #145
- Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals
- WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl
- Coin Center responds strongly against FATF
- Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban
- Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam
- OKEx adds lightning support
- Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats from 10K sats
- Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released
- UASF Taproot client released

- Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients
- myNode v0.2.30
- Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview
- Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment
- Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US
- Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board
- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II
- Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite
PODCASTS
- The Austin Bitcoin scene
- The Fed opening the spigots
- Systemic credit risk
- Fiscal spending enabled by the Fed
- Capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard
- Sam Houston