Rabbit Hole Recap #185: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners - Feb 10 2022

This week Marty and Matt discuss:


- married couple arrested and 96K bitcoin seized over 2016 bitfinex hack https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1470186/download



- canadian protests bitcoin fundraiser over 15 bitcoin https://tallyco.in/s/lzxccm/



- KPMG Canada adds bitcoin to treasury https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/kpmg-in-canada-adds-bitcoin-and-ethereum-to-its-corporate-treasury-851778842.html



- Russia shares bitcoin regulation plan https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/russia-shares-plan-to-regulate-bitcoin-crypto



- bitcoin design guide v2 launched https://bitcoin.design/guide/



- Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on bitcoin miners https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/133366/kazakhstan-floats-500-tax-increase-on-bitcoin-miners-leading-some-to-eye-relocation



- EARN IT Bill proposed to scan all online messages https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages



- sensei lightning node implementation released https://l2.technology/sensei



- cypherpunkpay v1.0.13: https://github.com/CypherpunkPay/CypherpunkPay/releases/tag/v1.0.13



- lnd v0.4.2-beta: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.14.2-beta



- electrs v0.9.5: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/releases/tag/v0.9.5



- lnbits v0.6.0: https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits-legend/releases/tag/0.6.0



- btcpayserver v1.4.4: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.4.4



- umbrel v0.4.14: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.14



- blixt v0.4.1: https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.4.1



- galoy v0.1.9: https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy/releases/tag/0.1.9



- mercury wallet v0.6.2: https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.2



- hexa wallet v2.0.69: https://github.com/bithyve/hexa/releases/tag/v2.0.69



- whirlpool v0.10.13: https://code.samourai.io/whirlpool/whirlpool-client-cli/-/releases/0.10.13



- valkyrie bitcoin miners etf launches with ticker WGMI https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001877493/000135445722000106/WGMI_8-ACert.pdf



- deventralized social media project bluesky announces independent Public Benefit LLC and board members https://blueskyweb.org/blog/2-7-2022-overview



- kraken funding full time bitcoin rust maintainer https://blog.kraken.com/post/12873/kraken-funds-full-time-bitcoin-rust-maintainer/



- Bitcoin is funding Ukraine defense https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-russia-cryptocurrency-donations-hacktivism



- fountain podcaster wallet launched https://www.fountain.fm/podcaster-wallet



- opennode raises $20M, now valued at $220M https://www.opennode.com/blog/opennode-series-a



- binance buys a stake in forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2022/02/10/forbes-announces-200-million-strategic-investment-from-binance