Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.15
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activates successfully at block 609732 - muun wallet adds taproot support - SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf - Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard - crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years - tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning - Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill - Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill - IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year - btcpayserver v1.3.5 - lnd v0.14.0-beta - mercury wallet v0.4.51 - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18 - immortan v0.5.6 - fully noded v0.2.30 - umbrel v0.4.8 - hexa wallet v2.0.2 - ledger live desktop v2.35.1 - bitcoin banking for communities - reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining