This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- el salvador announces bitcoin city and a bitcoin bond

- US 'pauses' relations with el salvador

- OBJ to convert his entire yearly salary to bitcoin

- samsung to build $17B chip factory in texas

- fold partners with pokemon go creator niantic

- electrs v0.9.3

- btcpayserver v1.3.6

- mercury wallet v0.4.53

- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.19

- seedsigner v0.4.5

- btcpayserver v1.3.6

- sphinx relay v2.2.2

- ledger live desktop v2.35.2

- lnd v0.14.0 is not compatible with other implementations

- gemini sponsors fanquake

- how to verify dice rolls on seedsigner

- compact block filters deep dive

- amazon does not want you to have privacy

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Episode 14136: STEELMAN AND THUNE AT NOON FOR 8-20-25