This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Dorsey announces independent board to run BTrust initiative funded with 500 bitcoin donation from him and Jay-Z to fund bitcoin development in Africa and India https://twitter.com/jack/status/1471217254448746503
- nonprofit "Sats Center" launches to educate regulators on bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-nonprofit-launches-to-educate-regulators
- Surveillance company "Chainalysis" launches lightning network product https://archive.ph/3oeSD
- Coinbase received 5562 law enforcement requests the first three quarters of this year https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-transparency-report-q1-q3-2021-80bb5c785da
- Payment Pools proposal https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/10/advent-13/
- Mercury v0.4.65 https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet/releases/tag/v0.4.65
- Sparrow v1.5.5 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.5.5
- Bisq v1.8.0 https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.8.0
- BlueWallet v6.2.15 https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/releases/tag/v6.2.15
- Caravan v0.3.13 https://github.com/unchained-capital/caravan/releases/tag/v0.3.13
- Zap desktop v0.7.5-beta https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.7.5-beta
- Umbrel v0.4.10 https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.10
- Galoy Raises $3M https://galoy.io/galoy-raises-3m-seed-round-to-help-communities-and-institutions-use-bitcoin-as-money/
- Ledn raises $70M valued at $540M https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ledn-raises-70-million-announces-bitcoin-backed-mortgage-product
- NYDIG raises $1B valued at $7B https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/14/institutional-bitcoin-broker-nydig-valued-at-7b-in-whopping-1b-funding-round/
- white house inflation comments https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1471251349581012999?s=20
- Kollider LN analysis https://kollider.medium.com/the-curious-case-of-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-and-the-algorithmic-trader-1bce3ce03c21
- Dorsey announces independent board to run BTrust initiative funded with 500 bitcoin donation from him and Jay-Z to fund bitcoin development in Africa and India https://twitter.com/jack/status/1471217254448746503
- nonprofit "Sats Center" launches to educate regulators on bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-nonprofit-launches-to-educate-regulators
- Surveillance company "Chainalysis" launches lightning network product https://archive.ph/3oeSD
- Coinbase received 5562 law enforcement requests the first three quarters of this year https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-transparency-report-q1-q3-2021-80bb5c785da
- Payment Pools proposal https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/10/advent-13/
- Mercury v0.4.65 https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet/releases/tag/v0.4.65
- Sparrow v1.5.5 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.5.5
- Bisq v1.8.0 https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.8.0
- BlueWallet v6.2.15 https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/releases/tag/v6.2.15
- Caravan v0.3.13 https://github.com/unchained-capital/caravan/releases/tag/v0.3.13
- Zap desktop v0.7.5-beta https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.7.5-beta
- Umbrel v0.4.10 https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.10
- Galoy Raises $3M https://galoy.io/galoy-raises-3m-seed-round-to-help-communities-and-institutions-use-bitcoin-as-money/
- Ledn raises $70M valued at $540M https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ledn-raises-70-million-announces-bitcoin-backed-mortgage-product
- NYDIG raises $1B valued at $7B https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/14/institutional-bitcoin-broker-nydig-valued-at-7b-in-whopping-1b-funding-round/
- white house inflation comments https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1471251349581012999?s=20
- Kollider LN analysis https://kollider.medium.com/the-curious-case-of-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-and-the-algorithmic-trader-1bce3ce03c21
