Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Taproot LOT OF LOTS 

- BitPay Sanctions Violations 

- Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault 

- MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin 

- Square quarterly earnings 

- Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing 

- Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation 

- Arthur Hayes emerges 

- Specter v1.2.0 

- Onion Share v2.3 

- RTL v0.10.1 

- Hexa Wallet v1.4.5 

- Samourai Dojo v1.9.0 

- MyNode v0.2.27 

- Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0 

- Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata 

- River raised $17.3M 

- BottlePay raised $15.5M 

- Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? 

- BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford

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