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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Blockstream IVPN Coinkite