Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-portugal-clarified-its-bitcoin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note

- Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html

- LocalBitcoins KYC - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/localbitcoins-new-kyc-rules-raise-privacy-concerns

- SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79

- vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/vaneck-solidx-to-offer-pilot-bitcoin-etf-to-institutional-investors

- Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/

- Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwne5/malicious-websites-hacked-iphones-for-years

- M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/

- TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be

- Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/

- Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/capital-controls-return-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive

- Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-August/002130.html

- Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1167628157731651584?s=20

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, freaks.
0:02.2	It's your boy Marty here on a Thursday afternoon.
0:06.5	I forget what day it is, the week after Labor Day.
0:10.0	Back in the studio with our friend Matt O'Dell, we were apart from each other last week.
0:15.1	It's good to see your face again.
0:16.3	Always good to be united.
0:17.9	Reunited.
0:19.7	Reunited and it feels so good.
0:23.1	We got a lot to talk about today.
0:25.2	First, let's get to the price.
0:26.9	According to the trade block XBX index, the price of Bitcoin at the current moment is $10,519.24.
0:36.9	And I got to sign in to my computer here.
0:40.3	So I got to block for my node for us.
0:46.3	Signing in, signing in.
0:51.3	That's 9500 sats per dollar
0:55.0	by the way
0:57.9	you want me to get you a block I can get you a block
0:59.9	yeah somebody get me a block here you know what I can just
1:02.1	go to the explorer here current block height is
1:05.4	593,411 411 okay getting the halving, around Memorial Day of next year.
1:14.6	Yeah, I really loved, I love that quote from the bent today that you had.
1:20.6	Oh, yeah, slowly, slowly, surely, and somewhat silently.
	...

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