Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/

- #FastForSatoshi

- $1B in fees https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1189559688494493697?s=19

- China blockchain pump https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dissident-sees-dark-warnings-in-chinas-blockchain-push

- Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1189606714250858496?s=19

- Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig https://blog.keys.casa/basic-multisig-2-of-3-now-with-two-hardware-keys/

- Coinmetrics nonce analysis https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-04a

- Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/

- Cryptosteel capsule hands on https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19

- Breez announces Lightning Rod https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-lightning-rod-2e0a40d3e44a

- Lightning and privacy https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1186998875854376960?s=19 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1187731152318160897?s=19

- c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3

- Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency

- Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/

- Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests-economy-dollars-idUSKBN1X60R2 & https://www.coindesk.com/how-lebanons-economic-crisis-highlights-bitcoins-limitations

- Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/argentina-tightens-currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you ready? Oh, yeah, we're ready. I just hit record. Cheers, bitch.
0:04.5	Happy October 31st, happy 11th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, the dropping of the Bitcoin white paper, the publishing of the Bitcoin white paper.
0:13.5	On this day, 11 years ago, Satoshi showed up on a cipherpunk mailing list and said, hey, I'm thinking about this idea, this P-to-P distributed system.
0:21.8	That's not exactly what he said, but you get the gist. Matt, happy white paper day.
0:27.2	Happy birthday, Bitcoin. One of Bitcoin's two birthdays. Great debate. What do you think? Where
0:33.7	are you standing? Well, today is Bitcoin's birthday.
0:39.9	And then in January, on January 3rd, we'll also be Bitcoin's birthday.
0:45.2	And then on January 10th, we'll also be Bitcoin's birthday.
0:47.8	The first transaction.
0:48.9	We have three birthdays.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:50.6	Yeah.
0:50.9	So it's a, you know what, more the merrier.
1:06.9	You said you have a story. I just told the story where I was on October 31st, 2008. That'll be on the podcast next week, but I should just retell it quickly because it's very... Dvulge.
1:07.4	Very timely. I was a senior in high school. 17 at the time, I was wearing a Lieutenant Dangle, Halloween costume all day.
1:15.6	It was Halloween, my senior year.
1:17.1	We were allowed to dress up and go to school in our costumes that day.
1:20.3	And it was a glorious day.
1:21.1	The Phillies had just won the World Series.
1:22.6	I was sitting on the first baseline the night they won.
1:26.0	I was there when Bradledge dropped to his knees and Carlos Ruiz ran into his arms.
1:32.4	And then, yeah, so we partied all night, celebrated the Phillies World Series.
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