Rabbit Hole Recap - Aug 12 2021

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- infrastructure bill amendments fail

- beyer bill proposed https://beyer.house.gov/uploadedfiles/beyer_028_xml.pdf

- large number of potential malicious bitcoin nodes graphing the network https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00815

- compass mining provides $80K grant to Jon Atack https://compassmining.io/education/compass-core-developer-donation/

- bitmex pays $100M to resolve charges with CFTC and FinCEN https://blog.bitmex.com/bitmex-confirms-it-has-reached-settlements-with-cftc-and-fincen/

- lightning addresses using lnurl https://lightningaddress.com/

- phoenix v1.4.15 https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases/tag/v1.4.15

- specter v1.5.1 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.5.1

- trezor suite v21.8.1 https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-suite-update-august-2021-ahora-en-español-aaa31d861f3f

- btcpayserver v1.2.0 https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-1-2-0/

- mining bitcoin at home https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/how-to-mine-bitcoin-at-home

- cuba and bitcoin by gladstein https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cubas-bitcoin-revolution

- lightning liquidity management guide by lopp https://blog.lopp.net/lightning-network-liquidity-management-guide/

- bitcoin 2022 april 6-9 in miami beach https://b.tc/conference/