

Rabbit Hole Recap
ODELL and Marty Bent
Join ODELL and Marty as they sit down to discuss the latest news in Bitcoin every week.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 38min
Rabbit Hole Recap #225: Bear Markets Are for Arguing
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Another LND bug causes nodes to fall out of sync again, update your node
- Tony explains how a malicious attacker could have used lnsploit to steal funds
- Replace By Fee Debate Spills onto Twitter
- Coinbase led surveillance group expands to europe with 67 companies supporting
- CashApp sold $1.76B worth of bitcoin to users last quarter
- Block releases more details on upcoming hardware wallet
- LDK v0.0.112
- Blixt Wallet v0.6.0
- Electrs v0.9.10
- Tor Project Annual Statements
- 1628 Supermarkets in South Africa to Accept Lightning
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Oct 27, 2022 • 2h 21min
Rabbit Hole Recap #224: Largest Bitcoin Miner Potentially Bankrupt
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Largest Mining Firm Core Scientific Appears Insolvent
- Publicly Traded Mining Firms are 25% of Hash
- Cash App Adds Lightning Receive Support
- One of Cash App’s Lightning Nodes
- Amboss Adds Controversial Data Sharing Feature
- Biden Wants to Make it Easier to Seize Bitcoin
- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.0
- Alby v1.18.0
- Kollider Exchange & Synthetic Stablecoins Launch
- Chinese Spies Paid Double Agent with Bitcoin
- New British PM Wants Surveillance Money
- MakerDAO Deposits $1.6B in Coinbase
- Binance at Over 50% of Global Trade Volume
- Rishi Sunak made PM of England
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Oct 20, 2022 • 1h 54min
Rabbit Hole Recap #223: Miner Pain Is Here
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- hodlonaut defeats csw
- bitcoin mining council releases statement on energy use, claims to represent nearly 50% of hash
- bitmex renews calvin kims grant for utreexo work
- LND v0.15.3-beta
- Echo v0.0.1
- Impervious Browser Alpha for Mac and Linux
- Fund Tor nodes with bitcoin
- Riot announces new mining facility in Texas
- Fall of Hydra Market
- Erlay progress
- BOJ announces bond buying
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Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 53min
Rabbit Hole Recap #222: Liquidity is drying up
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- large taproot multisig transaction breaks btcd and lnd, update lnd to fix issue
- spiral, braiins, and others collaborate on stratum v2
- coincenter suing OFAC over Tornado Cash
- bny mellon partners with fireblocks to custody bitcoin
- crusoe acquires great american mining
- bitcoin ekasi launches education center in south africa
- google partners with coinbase to accept bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- validity rollups on bitcoin
- btcpay v1.6.12
- bitcoin-s v1.9.6
- btcd v0.23.2
- onion share v2.6
- android leaks traffic when using vpn
- proton releases new vpn protocol that is harder to detect
- commercial paper drying up
- Stock market intraday volatility
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Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 25min
Rabbit Hole Recap #221: KYC/AML is Putting People in Danger
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- celsius releases personal info on all users
- foundry and grayscale announce new mining investment vehicle
- eu “bans” users from interacting with russian bitcoin addresses
- alby v1.17.0
- foundation v2.0.4
- coldcard mk4 v5.0.7
- start9 v0.3.2
- fountain v0.5.1
- tornado cash dev denied bail, assets being auctioned
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Sep 29, 2022 • 2h 41min
Rabbit Hole Recap #220: Bonds and pipelines are blowing up
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Mining hosting provider compute north files for bankruptcy https://www.theblock.co/post/172246/compute-north-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy
- Brink now funding 11 devs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-non-profit-brink-funds-11-bitcoin-lightning-developers
- Bitnob launches in kenya, integrates mpesa https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitnob-kenya-mpesa/
- Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/09/27/bitcoin-rapid-payment-service-strike-raises-90m-takes-aim-at-visa/
- Swan acquires specter https://www.swanbitcoin.com/swan-acquires-specter-solutions/
- Core Lightning v0.12.1 https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.12.1
- BTCPay Server v1.6.11 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.6.11
- Blockstream Jade v0.1.38 https://github.com/Blockstream/Jade/releases/tag/0.1.38
- Electrum v4.3.2 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/wallet-update-0-99-98f-db062dd0e1ec
- Initial code release for Taro https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-9-28-taro-launch/
- Bitmatrix brings uniswap-like project to liquid https://blog.liquid.net/bitmatrix-mainnet-is-live/
- TBD partners with Circle https://developer.tbd.website/blog/tbd-circle-partnership/
- When taproot launches to encourage adoption https://whentaproot.org/
- Cloudflare launches free CAPTCHA alternative https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/
- Hoseki donates $25K to BPI https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoseki-announces-donation-to-bitcoin-policy-i[…]-transparency-and-proof-of-reserves-research-301633003.html
- Ergo piece on bitcoin privacy in unredacted magazine https://unredactedmagazine.com/issues/004.pdf
- Feds seize $86M held in safe deposit boxes in beverly hills https://archive.ph/e5Omu
- Major australian isp exposes user details via open api https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/optus-under-1-million-extortion-threat-in-data-breach-a-20142
- BlackRock threatened to halt trading at height of UK market tumult https://www.ft.com/content/0f32fdf3-8823-4a9c-ba70-d087860cfe6c
- Stan Druckenmiller comments https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1575159503112196101?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g
- Iran sanctioned even harder
- Nordstream pipeline attacked https://twitter.com/anasalhajji/status/1575471322154541068?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g
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Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 25min
Rabbit Hole Recap #219: A Tale of Two Powells
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- riot and blockware release transaction fee paper https://blockwaresolutions.com/s/Bitcoin-Transaction-Fees-Final-Draft.pdf
- jesse powell steps down as ceo of kraken https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-of-crypto-exchange-kraken-steps-down-11663778989
- lnbits v0.9.3 https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.9.3
- fountain v0.4.9 https://fountainpodcasts.substack.com/p/fountain-0-4-9
- trezor suite v22.9.3 https://blog.trezor.io/coin-control-in-trezor-suite-92f3455fd706
- specter v1.13.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.0
- new privacy focused block explorer called spiral https://btc.usespiral.com/
- signet fedimint instance https://faucet.sirion.io/
- bitgo adds lightning https://blog.bitgo.com/bitgo-unveils-custodial-lightning-898554d3b749
- bolt.fun announces global tournament https://makers.bolt.fun/tournaments/1/overview
- mullvad announces hardware security key https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/9/19/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-company/
- border agents searching without warrants https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/09/Wyden-letter-to-CBP-on-border-searches-of-devices.pdf
- us military captures 90% of global internet traffic https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-
Marty Bent, [Sep 22, 2022 at 9:23:42 AM]:
- Clinton Global Initiative IMF/World Bank/Big bank merger https://twitter.com/willhild/status/1572300270499139586?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw
- Clinton Global Initiative climate printers https://twitter.com/willhild/status/1572301306530009090?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw
- Ghoulish rep https://twitter.com/martybent/status/1572791766369341440?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw
- Jamie dimon bitcoin https://twitter.com/business/status/1572696812351258624?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw
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Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 57min
Rabbit Hole Recap #218 Greenpeace Can Go Fork Themselves
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ethereum switches to proof of stake
- greenpeace continues to FUD bitcoin
- hodlonaut trial starts in Norway
- ledger hardware wallets now available at best buy stores
- fidelity and charles schwab launch bitcoin exchange
- mining pool Poolin announces IOUs amid solvency concerns
- Alby v1.15.0
- LDK v0.0.111
- Phoenix v1.4.23
- LNMarkets increases trade limits and moves to nodl cloud
- red dirt mining open source mining profitability calculator
- OFAC releases additional guidance on tornado cash sanctions
- yooper crate guide
- brother of former coinbase employee pleads guilty to insider trading
- increased surveillance of gun purchases with credit cards
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Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 56min
Rabbit Hole Recap #217: The Queen is dead and the Biden Administration hates mining
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- white house mining report
- poolin appears insolvent
- coinbase funding legal challenge to tornado cash sanctions
- russia to use cryptocurrency for international trade
- HRF donates $325K to bitcoin development
- australian feds form unit dedicated to tracking and seizing bitcoin
- fountain v0.4.8
- zeus v0.6.6
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- arcane research on bitcoin mining and energy industry
- IRS doxxes 120K tax payers
- hosted vpn providers shut down in india
- law enforcement using new location tracking tool without warrants
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Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 42min
Rabbit Hole Recap #216: DC targets Saylor while NYDIG launches Wolf
This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip.
- DC accuses saylor and microstrategy of tax fraud
- mining difficulty increases by 9.25%
- mempool launches lightning explorer
- nydig launches lightning accelerator
- Iran approves bitcoin for imports
- joinmarket v0.9.7
- lnd v0.15.1-beta
- btcd v0.23.1-beta
- Odell 50yrs poll 1 poll 2
- announcing rapid gossip sync
- block hardware wallet update
- TBD on self sovereign identity
- second largest data leak in history, 800M chinese records exposed
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