Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The number of people asking me about Bitcoin increased significantly this week.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
This crisis appears to be accelerating many of the trends we have been watching over the last few years. Change is coming and it is coming faster than we thought.
- Remote Work
- Automation
- 3D Printing
- Video Streaming
- Virtual Reality
- Localized supply chains
- Independent journalism
- Chinese dominance
- Increased surveillance
- Social media censorship
- The war on encryption
- Reduced cash usage
- The need for money that is independent of world governments and corporations.
TOP STORIES
Join us for a weekly discussion of this list on Rabbit Hole Recap
- Bitcoin Optech #89
- Casa open sources node
- Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality
- BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday
- MyNode v0.1.97
- RTL v0.7.0-beta adds Lightning Loop support
- Samourai Whirlpool March volume tops January and February volume combined

- Bitcoin gaming online event series announced
- Buying bitcoin privately
- CashApp rolling out option to display balances in sats
- 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle
- Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
- Upcoming build your own node guides on tftc.tv and parts list
- Ark Invest bitcoin mining research
- Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research
- Bakkt raises $300M Series B
- US Gov considering location tracking to fight the coronavirus
PODCASTS
- How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades
- The problems with top-down decision making
- Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run
- The morality of Fed policy
- Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic
- How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet
- Value per acre
- Creating community
- Bringing design thinking to city building
- Activating unused spaces
Rabbit Hole Recap - Stimulus Package #1
- Due to the ongoing crisis we will be adding a second Rabbit Hole Recap per week that drops on Mondays.
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #695: The clip is almost empty
- Tuesday - Issue #696: Corporate bailouts and helicopter money are here!
- Wednesday - Issue #697: Bitcoin waits in the brush
- Thursday - Issue #698: Bitcoin mining porn
- Friday - Issue #699: Keep your guard up