The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - July 3rd 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:
The biggest downward difficulty adjustment in Bitcoin’s history just happened.  Great time to
be a miner. 

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Hardware seems very cheap right now. Consider mining at home.
TOP STORIES
  • Bitcoin Optech #155
  • Athena to install 1500 bitcoin atms in el salvador 
  • Bisq v1.7.0 
  • Cwtch beta released 
  • Strike adds buy and hold support
  • Largest downward difficulty adjustment yesterday at 27.9%
  • Proposal for federated blind lightning mints
  • Nuclear powered mining in South Carolina
  • Niftynei on dual funded channels and privacy
  • Iranian government exempts 30 mining operators amid moratorium 
  • Binance adds travel rule tool from ciphertrace 
  • Nearly all 700M linkedin users exposed in API compromise
  • Microsoft executive testifies that they receive 7 to 10 requests a day to provide info on US citizens to the government
PODCASTS
  • Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday
  • Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

  • Leo Zhang
    • Is this mining ban real?
    • How are Chinese miners reacting?
    • The dynamics of communication between the Chinese and Western mining industries
    • How will this migration affect hashrate in the short and medium term?
    • What does this mean for the market for ASICS?
    • What does capacity in the US look like right now?
    • Hashrate derivatives
  • Edward Evenson
    • The great hashrate migrations
    • What Chinese miners are looking for in co-location partners
    • The 100 year anniversary of the CCP and its significance
    • Will mining return to China?
    • How well is hashrate being distributed as a product of this migration?
    • Braiins update
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