Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.01

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Elon playing games

- Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee

- Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit

- Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time

- California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT

- Darknet markets hit new ATH revenue according to chainalysis

- Matrix Chat Client Element removed

- Zeus v0.5.0-beta1

- Bisq v1.5.5

- Hexa Wallet v1.4.2

- Phoenix v1.4.6

- Home mining for non-KYC Bitcoin

- Self-hosting guide by Ketan

- Coinbase targeting Nasdaq and $50B valuation

- New Fed paper on inequality

- Ukraine considering nuclear mining

- Proposed Bitcoin Ban in India

- India blocks internet amid protests

- ATMs, banks, and internet access have been shutdown in Myanmar following military coup

- Casa raises $4m in seed round

- XMR.to shuts down

- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: January 2020

- Bitcoin 2021 Conference moved from LA to Miami in June

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