Rabbit Hole Recap #229: The Bankruptcies and Executive Departures Continue

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- El Salvador Bitcoin Treasury Lacks Transparency 

- BlockFi Declares Bankruptcy: High Risk Loans Resulted in Insolvency 

- Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler 

- BTCPay v1.7.0: new checkout page, unified QR for onchain and lightning, store branding, and white labeling, and more 

- Coinkite Launches ‘BinaryWatch’ Hub: Tracks Popular Bitcoin Software Signature Verification 

- New Open Source Lightning Privacy Research Portal Launches 

- Casa adds ethereum support 

- Crypto Garage DLC executed on mainnet lightning 

- Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles remotely hacked 

- Fed speaking like they may be tampering down hikes 

- SBF redemption tour

9:34- Bottom's not in and plastic trees
20:24 - Dashboard
23:00 - Russian hashrate
24:01 - El Salvador bitcoin transparency
29:02 - New sponsors
34:39 - Coinkite BinaryWatch
46:05 - Prime Trust fires Tom Pageler
49:45- Advice on bitcoin privacy
1:03:34 - Btcpay Server v1.7.0
1:09:14 - Riffing
1:13:13 - Open source lightning privacy research portal
1:16:14 - BTC++ in Mexico City
1:20:03 - Casa ETH support
1:32:22 - AI knows why to stay humble and stack sats
1:34:25 - AI discussion and linguistic disagreements
1:45:53 - Shoutouts
1:52:02- Powell may lower interest rate increases
1:53:06 - Real estate is not liquid
1:58:06 - SBF Redemption tour
2:01:46 - BlockFi hit by contagion
2:03:14 - Rod gets shooed
2:09:16 - Credit Suisse in trouble
2:12:20 - Railroad strike
2:14:00 - Lord Elon
2:18:05 - Rancher's Rip next week
2:20:52 - Boostagrams

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