Episode notes
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin
- Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash
- texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture
- canaan revenues increased by [237%](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/19/mining-rig-maker-canaan-q1-revenue-more-than-triples/ - cambridge releases new mining data numbers https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/bitcoin-mining-new-data-reveal-a-surprising-resurgence/)
- cambridge numbers are flawed
- EU wants to scan all your private messages
- summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants
- bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina
- coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card
- Brink funds Michael Ford
- BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko's grant
- a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers
- Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022
- bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5
- sparrow wallet v1.6.4
- gloria zhao releases package relay proposal
- pieter wuille on private authentication protocols
- new stablecoin backed by coldcards
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions
- adopting bitcoin 2022 announced
- mccormack releases film about el salvador
- how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-to-upgrade-bitcoin
- Former lead of Facebook's shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com
- SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/
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