TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.06

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated - Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto - Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions -...

2020-12-11

Episode notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:


- Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated


- Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto


- Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions


- G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations


- Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet


- Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self custody


- French Finance Ministry to enact stricter bitcoin regs


- Elliptic releases press release associating bitcoin privacy wallets with criminal intent


- Mass Mutual buys $100M worth of bitcoin


- Microstrategy borrowing money to buy more bitcoin


- c-lightning v0.9.2


- RoninDojo v1.8.0


- Specter v0.10.4


- Zap Android v0.3.6


- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.9


- Ledger Live adds easy bitcoin core full node support


- Bullish yearly survey from Blockchain Capital


- First multi-transaction CoinSwap test by Chris Belcher


- Lightning Network deanonymization paper


- BTC-e Operator sentenced to 5 years


- The Battle for P2SH


- Bitcoin Dissidents Editorial


- BTC Mag drops Top 21 in 2020 list:


- Moxie on Rogan then mobilecoin launch


- Tutanota ordered to break encryption


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