The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - April 24 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:
States are leading the way. This is a beautiful thing.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
You should have more bitcoin than you had last week. Stay humble and stack.
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  • Bitcoin Optech #145
  • Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals 
  • WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl 
  • Coin Center responds strongly against FATF 
  • Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban 
  • Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam 
  • OKEx adds lightning support 
  • Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats from 10K sats 
  • Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released 
  • UASF Taproot client released
  • Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients 
  • myNode v0.2.30 
  • Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview 
  • Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment 
  • Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US 
  • Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board 
  • The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II 
  • Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite
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Marty's Ƀent - April 23rd, 2021 - Issue #977

Friday, April 23, 2021

Friday, April 23rd 2021 - Issue #977 Louisiana commends Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin Another week passes and yet another state comes out of the woodwork to show its support for Bitcoin. This time, we

Marty's Ƀent - April 22nd, 2021 - Issue #976

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - Issue #976 A retrospective on the lockdowns and inflation On April 7th, 2020 your Uncle Marty wrote an issue of this rag titled A warning from history. At the time, the

Marty's Ƀent - April 21st, 2021 - Issue #975

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - Issue #975 Another type of decentralized mining pool It's been a while since we wrote about OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (OP_CTV), an op-code that would be enabled if BIP 119

Marty's Ƀent - April 20th, 2021 - Issue #974

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - Issue #974 Miner profitability modeling Leo Zhang and Jack Koehler of Anicca Research are back with Part II of their The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner series. For this

Marty's Ƀent - April 19th, 2021 - Issue #973

Monday, April 19, 2021

Monday, April 19th 2021 - Issue #973 Hashrate shock Late last week, the Bitcoin network experienced a hashrate shock as a number of coal plants were abruptly shutdown in Xinjiang province in China

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