Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
When you turn off the news and walk outside. Things aren’t as bad as they seem. The corporate media is a DOS attack on sanity.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
I often hear "bitcoin doesn't interest me, I'm not a finance person."
Ironically, the beauty of bitcoin is you don't have to be. In the current system you're expected to manage a diversified investment portfolio or pay someone to do it. Good money makes that optional.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #101
- HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient
- Coldcard v3.1.4 firmware
- Mitigates BIP-143 vuln without breaking software support
- Adds BIP-85: the ability to create child seeds from your master seed
- Improves QR display
- Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support
- Android APK
- Developer Signature
- PGP Key
- Electrum Personal Server v0.2.1.1
- Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC
- Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A
- List of no KYC exchanges

- Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet
- CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released
- Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares
- Bitcoin is Antifragile by Parker Lewis
- Canadian exchange Coinsquare alleged wash trading
- China OTC crackdown
- Brave browser ref link autocomplete
- Pentagon War Game ZBellion
- Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy
- Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod
PODCASTS
- JoinMarket
- Fidelity Bonds
- Chain analysis heuristics
- Chris' CoinSwap design
- A "privacy threshold"
- Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins
- Why exchanges should use Lightning
- Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam
- Managing a Lightning routing node
- The nuance of payment channels
- Lightning Loop
- Lightning's evolution with the fee market
- Creating standards for Lighting
- Lightning + privacy
- Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin
- Wyoming as a Citadel haven
- Working at Stack Overflow
- Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Joining Unchained Capital
- Working on collaborative custody products
- Caravan Version 2
- Hermit
- Future bitcoin products
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #754: The danger of the collective "we"
- Tuesday - Issue #755: Bitcoin will bring back value investing
- Wednesday - Issue #756: The backbone of society is being destroyed
- Thursday - Issue #757: Jeff Booth indirectly explains why Jerome Powell is wrong
- Friday - Issue #758: Another exciting week for Bitcoin fundamentals