The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - Jan 30 2021

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The Sat Standard
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Lesson of the week: Counterparty risk is pretty significant.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The powers that be can cut you off from your money and suppress your speech at will unless you learn how to defend yourself.
TOP STORIES
  • Bitcoin Optech #133
  • Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands 
  • Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin
  • Marathon provides $96k developer grant to Jonas Schnelli
  • Sparrow Wallet v1.0.0 
  • Tails v4.15 
  • Fully Noded v0.2.11
  • GrapheneOS web installer 
  • Grayscale donates $1M to coincenter, matching  up to another $1M 
  • Navalny donation address receives almost 4 bitcoin since he was jailed addy
  • Mining pool censorship analysis by bitmex research 
  • Jihan Wu signed letter 
  • Gladstein in Time on privacy 
  • Ray Dalio on bitcoin
  • Indian Gov considering a bitcoin ban
PODCASTS

  • Greg Foss
    • Surfing culture
    • Greg's experience trading credit markets
    • Using the CDS market for sovereign bonds as a way to calculate Bitcoin's fair value
    • Systemic risk in the financial system
    • Counter-party risk 
    • Bitcoin and the energy industry
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Marty's Ƀent - January 29th, 2021 - Issue #918

Friday, January 29, 2021

Friday, January 29th 2021 - Issue #918 They're exposed Those in the "expert" class in finance has been completely exposed this week. There is no better evidence of this than the

Marty's Ƀent - January 28th, 2021 - Issue #917

Friday, January 29, 2021

Thursday, January 28th 2021 - Issue #917 Let's start our own club George Carlin was way ahead of the game. George Carlin was so god damn prescient. After today, if it isn't abundantly clear to

Marty's Ƀent - January 27th, 2021 - Issue #916

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - Issue #916 The Capital Riot (Shoutout to Nic Carter for inspiring today's headline.) This week has made it clearer than ever that we live in a two-tiered world. There

Marty's Ƀent - January 26th, 2021 - Issue #915

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - Issue #915 Signs of inflation If you look outside the highly manipulated CPI that mainstream economists and bloggers like to point to as a gauge of inflation in the US

Marty's Ƀent - January 25th, 2021 - Issue #914

Monday, January 25, 2021

Monday, January 25th 2021 - Issue #914 Bitcoin empowers everyone Bitcoin does a very good job of highlighting the deluded lengths some individuals will go to defend the State and call for the shutdown

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