News

Economics

• Lyn Alden's June newsletter is all about Demand Destruction
• El Salvador’s government is gambling on bitcoin: The Economist magazine on the problems of the Bukele Regime
• SBF the founder of FTX wants to be an altcoin central bank except not really
  • Aaaand he's providing $250m of revolving credit to Blockfi

Tokenomics

• Solend, Solana based lending protocol, wanted to steal a whale's $120m deposit, got backlash, so now want to rugpull liquidate in a different way

• Privacy

• DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing, might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue

• Former lead dev of Wasabi 2.0 Wallet thinks the latest release is not safe to use

  • Wasabi says it's not being reckless, the release is just so great it doesn't need testing
  • We mention Bloom Filters, a fascinating bit of bitcoin engineering

• China weaponizing health screening codes to crush protestors against bank account confiscations

  • A CBDC would cut out several steps in this problem

Bitcoin Education

• Bolt Hackathon tutorials on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning
• Certified Bitcoin Professional test

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