This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tesla sold 75% of their bitcoin https://www.theblock.co/post/158765/tesla-sold-936-million-in-bitcoin-in-the-second-quarter
- Largest mining difficulty drop since last year, -%5.01 https://mempool.space/mining
- Senators ask EPA to require mining companies to disclose energy usage https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/reports/warren-colleagues-call-on-environmental-protection-agency-and-department-of-energy-to-require-cryptomining-companies-to-disclose-energy-use-and-emissions.
- Shift Crypto data breach https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/data-breach-of-marketing-platform-activecampaign/
- BTrust funds first developer https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/btrust-launches-african-cohort-for-new-bitcoin-developers
- Coldcard MK4 v5.0.5 https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade
- Coinkite looking for an app dev https://coinkite.com/careers
- Tor Browser v11.5 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115/
- Joinstr, using nostr as a coinjoin coordinator https://gist.github.com/1440000bytes/1c305097b070c8374cc3b91f50314a45
- Border Wallets Tool Launched https://borderwallets.com/
- zebedee raises $35M https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/19/zebedee-raised-35m-from-investors-including-square-enix-for-blockchain-game-payments/
- Fedi raises $4M https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-fedimint-scales-bitcoin-custody
- Coinbase assets listing team member arrested for insider trading https://www.theblock.co/post/158960/former-coinbase-product-manager-arrested-on-insider-trading-charges
- Beef Initiative Conference in Colorado this weekend https://beefinitiative.com/
CHAPTERS
Opening Riff 0:00
Beef Initiative 1:50
Live Music 4:50
Elon panic dumps 8:40
Supercycle 12:20
3 Arrows Capital risk management 13:45
Clarks Moody Dashboard 19:20
Privacy on bitcoin 21:55
Fedimint spaces 24:24
Hashrate update / downward pressure continues 26:00
Traditional markets correlation to Bitcoin 34:00
Elizabeth Warren Calls on EPA 37:00
Shiftcrypto leak 46:28
Bitcoin Trust in Africa 51:20
Project updates from Coinkite, Tor, Nostr, Border Wallets 51:20
Shout outs 1:01:20
Zebedee raise 1:03:45
Fedimint raises 4 million 1:07:02
Coinbase employee arrested for insider trading 1:17:30
Simply Bitcoin podcast 1:22:00
Marty and Matt discuss RHR longevity 1:23:20
Boostagrams 1:24:55
Ending Riff 1:28:40