Rabbit Hole Recap

This week Marty and Matt party it up in Nashville! https://bitcoinpark.co 7:05 - Party rip! 8:51 - PubKey 12:05 - Introducing guests and year in review 15:45 - Exchange degeneracy 18:35 - Interest rate hikes 21:34 - Talking about the future 24:50 - Samuel Deep Fried Bankrupt Man 27:25 - Rich history of scams and rug pulls 33:40 - Mining predictions 38:19 - ASIC loans 42:13 - Favorite mining scam 48:02 - Having fun watching Barry vs Winklevii 55:22 - Is the bottom in? 56:51 - Hunting Satoshi 1:01:20 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital IVPN Coinkite TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - winklevoss blast silbert https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/gemini-cofounder-cameron-public-letter/ - dcg fires 30% of employees at genesis https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-lender-genesis-lays-off-30-of-staff-11672939434 - dcg shutters wealth management division https://www.theinformation.com/articles/genesis-parent-company-dcg-shutters-its-wealth-management-division - silvergate lost $700m during ftx panic bank run https://www.wsj.com/articles/silvergate-raced-to-cover-8-1-billion-in-withdrawals-during-crypto-meltdown-11672895207 - coinbase pays NY Gov $50M implements stricter KYC https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/coinbase-settlement-anti-money-laundering.html - electrum v4.3.3 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES - zeus v0.7.1 https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.7.1 - bdk v0.26.0 https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.26.0 - rust whirlpool implementation https://github.com/straylight-orbit/whirlpool-client-rs - nunchuk adds collaborative custody subscriptions https://nunchuk.io/blog/introducing-the-honey-badger-wallet - fedimint hackathon https://www.fedi.xyz/fedimint-hackathon - new zoltan https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/12/ZoltanPozsar-CreditSuisse-WarandCommodity-Encumbrance.pdf 10:30 - Opening riff 14:18 - Dashboard fakeout 16:12 - You could ski down the Dow Jones chart 19:50 - Dashboard for real 24:08 - Recession 31:53 - DCG 34:36 - Cameron Winklevoss's letter 36:11 - More DCG 40:19 - What's Gemini Earn? 47:24 - Cognitive dissonance of finance and crypto 50:25 - Humble stackers win out 52:32 - Luke Dashjr lost his coins 58:09 - Matt's new Coldcard guide 1:01:05 - Genesis cascade effect and Silvergate bank run 1:05:21 - IndyMac clip, volume warning 1:10:22 - Back to Silvergate 1:12:57 - Bitcoin over gold 1:18:52 - Bitcoin's marshmallow test 1:25:36 - Coinbase pays NY, gets stronger KYC 1:27:38 - Software updates lightning round 1:28:35 - Straylight Orbit 1:29:22 - Nunchuck 1:34:58 - The Coinbase ad 1:37:37 - Fedi hackathon 1:38:45 - Boostagrams 1:40:43 - Zoltan's back 1:45:25 - Closing riff Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital IVPN Coinkite TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Another reminder to protect yourself if you used lastpass - SBF “$250M bond” was BS - Bitfarms CEO resigns - Gemini users file class action lawsuit - Samourai v0.99.98g - BTCPay v1.7.3 - JAM now available on most major node packages - FROSTR multisig nostr - Twitter Data Breach - US Housing Chart - Energy and Mining Week in Nashville - Free Open Source Contributor Tickets to Bitcoin 2023 - Demand response affecting hashrate - Argo sells Helios site to Galaxy for $65m and gets a $35m line of asic backed credit from Galaxy 10:19 - Marty visited Pubkey 15:21 - The year of self custody 32:54 - Gemini class-action 34:00 - Dashboard 35:41 - Did miners save Texas from the arctic blast? 45:52 - Heating the house with miners 54:09 - Defending from infrastructure failure 1:03:44 - Mining summit in Nashville 1:04:50 - Galaxy acquires Argo Helios 1:10:27 - Reminder to protect yourself from LastPass breach 1:17:22 - SBF bullshit bond 1:22:00 - Stay humble and stack sats 1:24:32 - Bitfarms new CEO 1:28:40 - Boostagrams 1:31:32 - Samourai v0.99.98g 1:34:25 - BTCPayserver, same as last week 1:34:52 - JAM 1:37:16 - FROSTR 1:42:16 - Twitter data breach 1:48:17 - US housing market 1:53:37 - Open source tickets for Bitcoin 2023 1:58:24 - Closing the year Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Upstream Data Blockstream IVPN Coinkite

This week Marty and Matt discuss so many things that we hit the character limit in the description. - Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy - Two FTX Execs Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges - SBF Released on $250M bond - Twitter announces policy banning nostr and other social promotion - QuadrigaCX addresses thought to be dead wake up - Greenidge Sells Hash to NYDIG to Avoid Bankruptcy - HRF Awards $325K in new grants - Zeus v0.7.0 - Alby v1.21.0 - Tails v5.8 BTCPay Server v1.7.2 - BTCPay v1.7.3 - LDK v0.0.113 - Breez Satscard Bounty - Sztorc Launches Company Focused on Drivechains - LastPass Compromised 10:19 - Merry Christmas! 14:02 - Jan 11th Bitcoin Park meetup 20:25 - Dashboard 23:13 - Nostr is doing great 30:23 - CoreSci bankrupt 49:09 - ASIC are cool 56:16 - FTX execs plead guilty 1:06:34 - Elon doesn't like privacy 1:15:47 - QuadrigaCX awakens 1:28:18 - HRF grants 1:31:12 - Shoutouts 1:37:10 - Zeus v0.7.0 1:42:43 - Alby v1.21.0 1:43:56 - Tails v5.8 1:47:02 - Btcpay Server v1.7.2 and v1.7.3 1:47:38 - LDK v0.0.113 1:47:50 - Breez Satscard bounty 1:50:47 - Paul Sztorc Layer Two Labs 1:53:54 - Last Pass security incident 1:59:00 - Shoutout to oil and gas workers 2:01:33 - Boostagrams Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Upstream Data Blockstream IVPN Coinkite

- SBF arrested in Bahamas - EU to force companies to report user holdings - US senate bill proposed to outlaw private bitcoin development and usage - Coinbase received 12320 government demands for customer info this year - SBF secretly funded the block news org, ceo steps down - Jack Dorsey provides 14 bitcoin grant to Nostr - Bitcoin Core v 0.24.0 had coin selection bug, latest version is v 0.24.1 - Twitter had FBI/CIA agents directing policy - US Interest payment expense at $766B - Binance outflows and withdraws delayed 9:02 - Self custody ATH 21:23 - BullBitcoin trouble with RBC 27:54 - Dashboard 33:27 - Matt's dogs love palindrome blocks 34:30 - SBF arrested in Bahamas 43:30 - Zombie McAfee 47:04 - EU forcing privacy violations 58:04 - DAAML 1:06:49 - Bitcoin cannot be centrally controlled 1:18:54 - Coinbase transparency report 1:24:54 - SBF secretly bought The Block 1:37:39 - Bitcoin Core v0.24.1 1:41:49 - Shoutouts 1:54:29 - Jack Dorsey donates to Nostr 2:04:09 - Bitcoin Takeover 2:06:26 - Twitter files 2:22:35 - US interest expense 2:24:30 - Boostagrams 2:28:02 - Who would lend the US money? Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl IVPN Coinkite

This week Marty and Matt discuss: DCG owes gemini customers $900M Strike launches remittance product for Africa Legends of Lightning tournament winners announced Block funds African rural mining company ‘Gridless’ Ledger announces new hardware wallet ‘Stax’ Core Lightning v22.11 BDK v0.25.0 Tor Browser v12.0 Threema encrypted messenger adds new communication protocol Silvergate CEO Alan Lane public letter FTX full venture portfolio released This month in bitcoin privacy New zoltan, world war III has already started 8:54 - Ranch pills and orange pills 32:31 - Dashboard 3 7:35 - DCG owes $900 million 43:10 - Matty Jones: Brady and Giselle split to avoid FTX fallout 48:08 - Strike launches Africa remittance feature 51:06 - More Beef Initiative talk 1:04:33 - KYC is the enemy 1:06:53 - Bullshit jobs 1:14:04 - Legends of Lightning winners 1:18:22 - Gridless African mining 1:25:22 - New Ledger wallet 1:40:53 - Shoutouts 1:47:41 - Core Lightning 1:48:11 - BDK 1:48:41 - TOR 1:49:36 - Threema's Ibex, different from IBEX 1:51:19 - Alan Lane's public letter 1:54:11 FTX-Alameda portfolio 1:58:11 - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy 2:00:36 - Zoltan, WWIII already here 2:07:06 - Final thoughts from Slim and Jason 2:08:51 - Boostagrams Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Blockstream IVPN Coinkite

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - El Salvador Bitcoin Treasury Lacks Transparency - BlockFi Declares Bankruptcy: High Risk Loans Resulted in Insolvency - Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler - BTCPay v1.7.0: new checkout page, unified QR for onchain and lightning, store branding, and white labeling, and more - Coinkite Launches ‘BinaryWatch’ Hub: Tracks Popular Bitcoin Software Signature Verification - New Open Source Lightning Privacy Research Portal Launches - Casa adds ethereum support - Crypto Garage DLC executed on mainnet lightning - Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles remotely hacked - Fed speaking like they may be tampering down hikes - SBF redemption tour 9:34- Bottom's not in and plastic trees 20:24 - Dashboard 23:00 - Russian hashrate 24:01 - El Salvador bitcoin transparency 29:02 - New sponsors 34:39 - Coinkite BinaryWatch 46:05 - Prime Trust fires Tom Pageler 49:45- Advice on bitcoin privacy 1:03:34 - Btcpay Server v1.7.0 1:09:14 - Riffing 1:13:13 - Open source lightning privacy research portal 1:16:14 - BTC++ in Mexico City 1:20:03 - Casa ETH support 1:32:22 - AI knows why to stay humble and stack sats 1:34:25 - AI discussion and linguistic disagreements 1:45:53 - Shoutouts 1:52:02- Powell may lower interest rate increases 1:53:06 - Real estate is not liquid 1:58:06 - SBF Redemption tour 2:01:46 - BlockFi hit by contagion 2:03:14 - Rod gets shooed 2:09:16 - Credit Suisse in trouble 2:12:20 - Railroad strike 2:14:00 - Lord Elon 2:18:05 - Rancher's Rip next week 2:20:52 - Boostagrams Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Blockstream IVPN Coinkite

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - The Securities Commission of The Bahamas Seized Digital Assets of FTX After Bankruptcy Declared in US - Bitcoin Core v24.0 - Sparrow Wallet v1.7.1 - Hoseki Launches Real-Time Proof of Reserves Hub - ‘SatsCrap’ Bitcoin P2P Marketplace - Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February - Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals $2.8 billion in Outstanding Loans: 30% made to related parties including parent company Digital Currency Group - 3AC, DCG & Amazing Coincidences - FTX and Gemini bought a large stake in a bank - Mutiny wallet node in the browser - FTX "hacker" sends bitcoin to centralized mixer - Lightning Legends Tournament - SURVIVAL by ODELL TIMESTAMPS: 13:05 - Dashboard 15:49 - The contagion continues with Genesis 19:40 - GBTC money printer 25:05 - Once more, control your keys 32:45 - DCG's massive portfolio 35:25 - Get your Black Friday wallets 37:15 - Bahamas ChipMixer 43:30 - FTX and Farmington 50:40 - SBF NYT speaker 52:05 - Chaos out there, stay humble stack sats 1:00:25 - BTC Core 24.0 1:04:45 - Sparrow 1.7.1 1:05:40 - Hoseki real time proof of reserves 1:10:00 - SatsCrap 1:14:20 - Tornado Cash dev in jail till February 1:18:55 - Mutiny Wallet 1:20:35 - Legends of Lightning 1:21:55 - Shoutouts and Boostagrams 1:27:05 - Closing riff Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Blockstream

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Contagion continues - Matt didn't make a list - Party rip Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Blockstream TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FTX files for bankruptcy - Timeline of events that lead to it - BlockFi halts withdrawals, most likely insolvent - Ledn exposed to Alameda - Remove your bitcoin from custodians and learn how to self custody - CZ & SBF conspiracy - Marty Jones rant state attack conspiracy - Silvergate - Ben Carman's Vortex Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth Blockstream TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast