Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.09

<p>This week Marty and Matt discuss:</p> <p>- infrastructure bill amendments fail</p> <p>- beyer bill <a href="https://beyer.house.gov/uploadedfiles/beyer_028_xml.pdf">proposed</a> </p> <p>- large number of potential malicious bitcoin nodes graphing the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00815">network</a> </p> <p>- compass mining provides $80K grant to Jon <a href="https://compassmining.io/education/compass-core-developer-donation/">Atack</a> </p> <p>- bitmex pays $100M to resolve charges with CFTC and <a href="https://blog.bitmex.com/bitmex-confirms-it-has-reached-settlements-with-cftc-and-fincen/">FinCEN</a> </p> <p>- lightning addresses using <a href="https://lightningaddress.com/">lnurl</a> </p> <p>- phoenix <a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases/tag/v1.4.15">v1.4.15</a> </p> <p>- specter <a href="https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.5.1">v1.5.1</a> </p> <p>- trezor suite <a href="https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-suite-update-august-2021-ahora-en-español-aaa31d861f3f">v21.8.1</a> </p> <p>- btcpayserver <a href="https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-1-2-0/">v1.2.0</a> </p> <p>- mining bitcoin at <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/how-to-mine-bitcoin-at-home">home</a> </p> <p>- cuba and bitcoin by <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cubas-bitcoin-revolution">gladstein</a> </p> <p>- lightning liquidity management guide by <a href="https://blog.lopp.net/lightning-network-liquidity-management-guide/">lopp</a> </p> <p>- bitcoin 2022 april 6-9 in miami <a href="https://b.tc/conference/">beach</a> </p> <p>Shoutout to this week's sponsors.</p> <p>Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.</p> <p>Unchained Capital. Check out their <a href="https://unchained-capital.com/the-vault-concierge-onboarding-package/">white glove vault concierge service</a> that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.</p> <p>HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on <a href="https://lend.hodlhodl.com/">lend.hodlhodl.com</a></p> <p>Braiins. <a href="https://braiins.com/">Braiins</a> are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their <a href="https://insights.braiins.com/profitability-calculator">mining profitability calculator</a>.</p>