

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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Aug 26, 2022 • 2h 59min
Rabbit Hole Recap #214: Austin party rip with Jevi and Adam O
This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jevi from Unchained Capital and Adam O from Upstream Data to have a party rip.
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Aug 19, 2022 • 2h 1min
Rabbit Hole Recap #213: Censorship resistance should be the priority
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tornado Cash Developer Arrested in Amsterdam
- coincenter on tornado cash
- us bans export of 3nm chip tech
- Casa discloses data breach of store
- Vinteum launched to support bitcoin dev in brazil
- bitmain and antpool launch new miner loan program
- bitcoin ekasi in south africa
- telcos could get hundreds of millions in fines waived for location tracking
- iOS VPN support leaks data
- Inflation Reduction Act passed, Bill Gates lobbied hard for it
- channel jamming research
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Aug 11, 2022 • 2h 18min
Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ethereum privacy tool tornado cash sanctioned
- tornado cash github repo taken down, same with dev accounts
- coincenter on sanctions
- btc-e exchange operator extradited to US
- proposal to require large hedge funds to disclose cryptocurrency positions
- blackrock launches bitcoin private trust
- tropic square open source secure chip begins production
- easy inbound liquidity using voltage
- more details on Block's hardware wallet
- motiv launches 16 circular economies in Peru
- sms provider twilio compromised
- email provider Klaviyo compromised, impacts customers of 44 bitcoin companies including swan
- border wallets explained
- fiatjaf on value4value
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Aug 4, 2022 • 2h 5min
Rabbit Hole Recap #211: Is the Fed buying bitcoin?
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Israel bans use of cash for purchases larger than NIS 6000 - roughly $1700
- CSW vs McCormack
- Victorian Gov Coming for your coin
- Foundry funds stratum v2 dev
- Galoy raises $4million, launches stablesats
- Coinbase partners with Blackrock
- Raspiblitz v1.8.0
- Coldcard v5.0.6
- Sparrow Wallet v1.6.6
- Celsius creditor list
- John Cantrell Route Blinding
- Foreigners hold just 33% of US debt: the lowest amount this century
- $80 billion in new funding for the IRS
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Jul 28, 2022 • 2h 15min
Rabbit Hole Recap #210: Salty senators insider trading
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- senators salty at fidelity for bitcoin product
- kraken accused of violating sanctions
- senators introduce bill for tax exemption on bitcoin payments smaller
- twitter data break exposes 5.4M accounts
- bitfinex and tether launch p2p communications app Keet
- Lnbits v0.91
- Start9 Embassy v0.3.1.1
- Wasabi Wallet v2.0.1.3
- LDK v0.0.110
- gladstein on fedimints
- three arrows founders give first interview since collapse
- Fed 75bps hike
- Redefining recession
- Ursula von der Leyen's energy comments
- Canada wants farmers to cut nitrogen emissions by 30%
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Jul 21, 2022 • 1h 38min
Rabbit Hole Recap #209: Pouring some out for the weak hands
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tesla sold 75% of their bitcoin
- Largest mining difficulty drop since last year, -%5.01
- Senators ask EPA to require mining companies to disclose energy usage
- Shift Crypto data breach
- BTrust funds first developer
- Coldcard MK4 v5.0.5
- Coinkite looking for an app dev
- Tor Browser v11.5
- Joinstr, using nostr as a coinjoin coordinator
- Border Wallets Tool Launched
- zebedee raises $35M
- Fedi raises $4M
- Coinbase assets listing team member arrested for insider trading
- Beef Initiative Conference in Colorado this weekend
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Jul 15, 2022 • 2h 34min
Rabbit Hole Recap #208: Party rip at Bitcoin Park
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Robinhood Enables Bitcoin Transfers
- Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
- Compass Mining Lays Off 15% of Team
- China Police Database Was Left Open Online
- Gloria Zhao Added as a Bitcoin Core Maintainer
- BTCPay Server v1.6.1
- Bitcoin ETN Launches in Germany
- Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage To Police Without A Warrant Or Consent
- Bitcoin Optech
- NYDIG Announces Partnership with the New York Yankees
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Jul 8, 2022 • 2h 31min
Rabbit Hole Recap #207: The Liberal World Order is Here
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- OpenNode partners with Lemon Cash to bring lightning to a million Argentines
- More details of blockfi deal with ftx
- Three Arrows Capital files for bankruptcy
- Voyager freezes withdrawals and declares bankruptcy
- Indian exchange Vauld freezes withdrawals due to insolvency
- Core Scientific sold most of their bitcoin
- Rizzo on Maximalism
- Bitcoin Policy Institute submits report to Department of Commerce
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98e
- Zimbabwe introduces gold coins as inflation worsens
- Tapsigner + Nunchuck
- No reserve requirement
- CDSs popping
- Power costs in Germany soaring
- Nuclear and gas is now "green" in Europe
- Cloud seeding in Australia
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Jun 30, 2022 • 2h 49min
Rabbit Hole Recap #206: More pain is on the way
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- $4 Billion in Bitcoin Miner Loans Under Stress
- MicroBT to Get First Access to Samsung 3nm Chips
- Supreme Court Rules Against EPA Limiting Federal Power to Regulate Bitcoin Miners and Other Energy Projects
- Montana Storm Takes 75% of Marathon Hash Offline
- First Batch of My First Bitcoin Diplomas Awarded, Second School Joins Initiative
- Celsius is $2B in the Hole
- Leaked Call Provides More Details on BlockFi Issues
- Compass Mining CEO and CFO Resign
- More Details of Coinbase Surveillance Tools Sale to US Gov Released
- EU to Release FATF Compliant Travel Rule Requirements
- GBTC ETF Conversion Denied, Grayscale Sues SEC
- Bitcoin Amsterdam in October
- India Passes New Digital Surveillance Measures
- Coinbase Surveillance
- America: Freedom to Fascism
- Vince Vaughn Freaks out
- BIP 324
- Shares of $GBTC
- Netherlands farmers protest
- Powell gaslighting
- Bent Issue #711: A warning from history
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Jun 23, 2022 • 2h 11min
Rabbit Hole Recap #205: Bailouts, uprisings, and gaslighting
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
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