The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - Jan 29 2022

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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:
It’s a stacker’s paradise.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:

Five years ago most bitcoin exchanges did not require you to provide sensitive personal information to use them but the practice has now become normalized. These policies put users at risk of theft, extortion, persecution, and identity theft while not actually stopping criminals.

Over the next five years expect increasingly worse policies to become normalized.

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