Rabbit Hole Recap

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - UK self custody acknowledgement - FATF report coming - Putin’s comments on sanctions - Biden blames gas stations - Sri Lanka PM declares economic collapse - BOJ QE in overdrive - ECB balance sheet ATH - BIS gaslighting - BlockFi FTX bailout - Voyager exposed - Gazprom + BitRiver - Bitcoin on DNMs - Fountain 0.4.0 released - IBEX onboarding Miami merchants - DARPA funding (poor) bitcoin research - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth Upstream Data 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: - Celsius, 3 Arrows Capital + BlockFi rumors - Fed rate hike - Biden letter to O&G execs - Japanese government bonds - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth Upstream Data

This week Marty and Matt discuss: Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z announce The Bitcoin Academy Bitcoin Park Launches in Nashville Telegram is Giving Data to German Feds in Certain Cases Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol Senator Lummis and Senator Gillibrand Introduce Landmark Bitcoin Bill Letter to US Congress on Bitcoin's Humanitarian Impact LN Summit 2022 Notes & Summary/Commentary A New Project Using LDK to Probe the Lightning Network for Private Channels Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5 Reviewing Privacy Enhancing Proposals for Bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - russia considering bitcoin for international settlement - seed tool v1.0.7 - robosats integrates openpgp encrypted chat - new Block report - Biden admin considering bitcoin mining regulation - Yellen backtracking on “transitory” - Europe cutting off Russian oil - Dimon comments + GS comments - FFR rate of change - ESG is dying Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jack Mallers to discuss everything that happened at the Oslo Freedom Forum this week. Follow Jack on twitter Learn more about the Oslo Freedom Forum. Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin - Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash - texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture - canaan revenues increased by [237%](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/19/mining-rig-maker-canaan-q1-revenue-more-than-triples/ - cambridge releases new mining data numbers https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/bitcoin-mining-new-data-reveal-a-surprising-resurgence/) - cambridge numbers are flawed - EU wants to scan all your private messages - summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants - bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina - coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card - Brink funds Michael Ford - BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko's grant - a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers - Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022 - bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5 - sparrow wallet v1.6.4 - gloria zhao releases package relay proposal - pieter wuille on private authentication protocols - new stablecoin backed by coldcards - this month in bitcoin privacy - fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions - adopting bitcoin 2022 announced - mccormack releases film about el salvador - how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-to-upgrade-bitcoin - Former lead of Facebook's shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com - SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - terra "stablecoin" blows up - treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io - cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit - coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss - chainalysis valued at $8.6B - joinmarket v0.9.6 - arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client - casa launches api - rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal - conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch - spiral post on supporting open source - georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans - grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf - costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks - CD64: BIP119, CTV, and the bitcoin development process with @rusty_twit and @brian_trollz - brian armstrong thread - ishares high yield Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coinbase launches revamped surveillance product - SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit - cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant - fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant - bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA - how women view bitcoin - mycitadel v1.0 - seed tool v1.0.4 - tor v0.4.7.7 - cold card upgrade - lightning multiplexer - new lightning only vpn - voltage podcast index study - Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning - currency of last resort by gladstein - paypal being used to censor speech - all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl