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Rabbit Hole Recap #220: Bonds and pipelines are blowing up

161 min • 29 september 2022

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Mining hosting provider compute north files for bankruptcy https://www.theblock.co/post/172246/compute-north-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy

- Brink now funding 11 devs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-non-profit-brink-funds-11-bitcoin-lightning-developers

- Bitnob launches in kenya, integrates mpesa https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitnob-kenya-mpesa/

- Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/09/27/bitcoin-rapid-payment-service-strike-raises-90m-takes-aim-at-visa/

- Swan acquires specter https://www.swanbitcoin.com/swan-acquires-specter-solutions/

- Core Lightning v0.12.1 https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.12.1

- BTCPay Server v1.6.11 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.6.11

- Blockstream Jade v0.1.38 https://github.com/Blockstream/Jade/releases/tag/0.1.38

- Electrum v4.3.2 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/wallet-update-0-99-98f-db062dd0e1ec

- Initial code release for Taro https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-9-28-taro-launch/

- Bitmatrix brings uniswap-like project to liquid https://blog.liquid.net/bitmatrix-mainnet-is-live/

- TBD partners with Circle https://developer.tbd.website/blog/tbd-circle-partnership/

- When taproot launches to encourage adoption https://whentaproot.org/

- Cloudflare launches free CAPTCHA alternative https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

- Hoseki donates $25K to BPI https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoseki-announces-donation-to-bitcoin-policy-i[…]-transparency-and-proof-of-reserves-research-301633003.html

- Ergo piece on bitcoin privacy in unredacted magazine https://unredactedmagazine.com/issues/004.pdf

- Feds seize $86M held in safe deposit boxes in beverly hills https://archive.ph/e5Omu

- Major australian isp exposes user details via open api https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/optus-under-1-million-extortion-threat-in-data-breach-a-20142

- BlackRock threatened to halt trading at height of UK market tumult https://www.ft.com/content/0f32fdf3-8823-4a9c-ba70-d087860cfe6c

- Stan Druckenmiller comments https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1575159503112196101?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g

- Iran sanctioned even harder

- Nordstream pipeline attacked https://twitter.com/anasalhajji/status/1575471322154541068?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g

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