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Podcasts: Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.17 🔗 3 years ago

Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- our two first $10K candles and it was the same day!

- hash rate appears to have dropped 

- dutch bank no longer requiring withdrawal address verification 

- cross browser tracking vulnerability 

- chaos at freenode 

- libsecp256k1 improvements have sped up bitcoin core validation by 7% 

- darkside says servers and bitcoin seized, all decryption keys to be released 

- elliptic follows darkside funds https://archive.ph/lBa2C and oxt provides cluster 

- argentina authorities force exchanges to provide data 

- US Treasury wants a $10K transfer reporting requirement 

- whirlpool cli v0.10.11 

- ronindojo v1.10.0 

- sparrow wallet v1.4.1 

- chess tournament with $100K bitcoin prize 

- galaxy digital on bitcoin energy consumption 

- wharton receives $5M worth of bitcoin 

- anthony towns on taproot activation 

- chinese gov and apple servers

- follow up to last week's solar comments

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