Rabbit Hole Recap #177: The gaslighting heats up

<p>This week Marty and Matt discuss:</p> <p>- Jack announces independent board to run BTrust initiative funded with 500 bitcoin donation from him and Jay-Z to fund bitcoin development in Africa and <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1471217254448746503">India</a> </p> <p>- nonprofit "Sats Center" launches to educate regulators on <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-nonprofit-launches-to-educate-regulators">bitcoin</a> </p> <p>- Surveillance company "Chainalysis" launches lightning network <a href="https://archive.ph/3oeSD">product</a> </p> <p>- Coinbase received 5562 law enforcement requests the first three quarters of this <a href="https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-transparency-report-q1-q3-2021-80bb5c785da">year</a> </p> <p>- Payment Pools <a href="https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/10/advent-13/">proposal</a> </p> <p>- Mercury <a href="https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet/releases/tag/v0.4.65">v0.4.65</a> </p> <p>- Sparrow <a href="https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.5.5">v1.5.5</a> </p> <p>- Bisq <a href="https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.8.0">v1.8.0</a> </p> <p>- BlueWallet <a href="https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/releases/tag/v6.2.15">v6.2.15</a> </p> <p>- Caravan <a href="https://github.com/unchained-capital/caravan/releases/tag/v0.3.13">v0.3.13</a> </p> <p>- Zap desktop <a href="https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.7.5-beta">v0.7.5-beta</a> </p> <p>- Umbrel <a href="https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.10">v0.4.10</a> </p> <p>- Galoy Raises <a href="https://galoy.io/galoy-raises-3m-seed-round-to-help-communities-and-institutions-use-bitcoin-as-money/">$3M</a> </p> <p>- Ledn raises $70M valued at <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ledn-raises-70-million-announces-bitcoin-backed-mortgage-product">$540M</a> </p> <p>- NYDIG raises $1B valued at <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/14/institutional-bitcoin-broker-nydig-valued-at-7b-in-whopping-1b-funding-round/">$7B</a> </p> <p>- white house inflation <a href="https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1471251349581012999?s=20">comments</a> </p> <p>- Kollider LN <a href="https://kollider.medium.com/the-curious-case-of-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-and-the-algorithmic-trader-1bce3ce03c21">analysis</a></p> <p>Shoutout to our sponsors:</p> <p><a href="https://cash.app/">Cash App</a></p> <p><a href="https://unchained-capital.com/the-vault-concierge-onboarding-package/">Unchained Capital</a></p> <p><a href="https://insights.braiins.com/profitability-calculator">Braiins</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/dfrumps/status/1457746897578438658?s=20">Daniel's thread</a></p> <p><a href="https://compassmining.io/?transaction_id=10246d24aa42523303e41aa29f6ea0">Compass Mining</a></p> <p><a href="https://lend.hodlhodl.com/">HodlHodl</a></p> <p><a href="https://b.tc/conference">Bitcoin 2022</a> - use the code TFTC for 10% off</p>