Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.15

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html

- miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400

- Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-for-crypto-miners

- Pakistani province experimenting with mining using hydro https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-pakistan/pakistani-province-plans-to-build-pilot-crypto-currency-mining-farms-idUSKBN2BA0KW

- Oakland Athletics bitcoin suites https://twitter.com/AthleticsPR/status/1371144942735609859

- Morgan Stanley wealth management now offering bitcoin funds https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html

- Signal now accepting bitcoin https://signal.org/donate/#cryptocurrency

- India attempted ban rumored https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSKBN2B60R0

- JPMorgan says retail flows comparable to institutional https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/retail-bitcoin-traders-rival-wall-street-buyers-as-mania-builds

- Third coincenter letter to fincen about proposed enhanced kyc https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-uses-additional-time-provided-by-fincen-to-file-another-comment-in-ongoing-surveillance-rulemaking/

- Binance probed by CFTC https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/crypto-exchange-binance-investigated-by-u-s-over-who-s-trading

- BitMEX cofounder Ben Delo surrenders and released on $20M bail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/bitmex-founder-delo-surrenders-to-face-u-s-laundering-charges

- Coldcard v4.0.0 https://blockclockmini.com/firmware/

- Blockclock mini v1.0.8 https://blog.coinkite.com/version-4.0.0-released/

- HWI v2.0.0 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/releases/tag/2.0.0

- Nodl dojo v0.1.2c

- Rudefox Burrow v0.1.1 https://www.rudefox.io/burrow/quick-start.html

- Anthony Towns on UASF http://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2021/03/14/fixing-uasf

- Ryan Gentry on bitcoin governance https://ryanthegentry.medium.com/a-theory-of-bitcoin-governance-13510eff42a6

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