Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.09

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- infrastructure bill amendments fail

- beyer bill proposed

- large number of potential malicious bitcoin nodes graphing the network

- compass mining provides $80K grant to Jon Atack

- bitmex pays $100M to resolve charges with CFTC and FinCEN

- lightning addresses using lnurl

- phoenix v1.4.15

- specter v1.5.1

- trezor suite v21.8.1

- btcpayserver v1.2.0

- mining bitcoin at home

- cuba and bitcoin by gladstein

- lightning liquidity management guide by lopp

- bitcoin 2022 april 6-9 in miami beach

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