Bitmax Buying a Bank

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Intel to announce new bitcoin ASIC in feb

- GRIID has signed a deal with Intel for their ASICs

- BitMEX to acquire 268 year old German Bank

- Taproot funds burned

- mempool v2.3.0

- mercury wallet v0.5.9

- onionshare v2.5

- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.27

- lightning pool v0.5.4-alpha

- umbrel v0.4.11

- tdex v1.2.4

- El Salvador Gov is using pegasus spyware against journalists

- Bukele meets withs Erdogan

- UK Gov planning publicity campaign against encrypted communication

- Ethiopia should turn to bitcoin

- Congressional Hearing on Bitcoin

- btcpolicy.org fact sheet focused on the hearing

- Citadel Dispatch will no longer be on TFTC podcast feed going forward, search Citadel Dispatch in your favorite podcast app

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