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Podcasts: Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.19 🔗 3 years ago

Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals 

- WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl 

- Coin Center responds strongly against FATF 

- Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban 

- Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam 

- OKEx adds lightning support 

- Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats 

- Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released 

- UASF Taproot client released 

- Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients 

- myNode v0.2.30 

- Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview 

- Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment 

- Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US 

- Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board 

- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II 

- Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite

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