News

Signet Fediment instance is live
- Signet is a test network for bitcoin that is more centralized than testnet, making it more reliable

Even Japan is experiencing inflation and the yen has lost ~40% of it's value this year
- But inflation in Japan is only 3% and their currency is down 40%, maybe something else is going on

Even professional altcoin market makers are getting hacked
- But it was a vanity address problem, which has also popped up on bitcoin
Celsius and Voyager bankruptcy procedings are weird, FTX shows up everywhere
- [Crypto exchange FTX]](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/crypto-exchange-ftx-valued-at-32-billion-amid-bitcoin-price-plunge.html) achieves high private valuation in a crypto bear market
- Cryptocurrency exchange FTX saw its valuation swell to $32 billion in a new funding round announced Monday, highlighting continued appetite for the sector even as investors grow wary about a sharp pullback in crypto prices.
- The Bahamas-based company said Monday that it raised $400 million in a Series C financing round — its third fundraise in the last nine months.

Bitcoin Education

Jameson Lopp on the tricky logic of UTXO selection
K3tan's homelab might be a good topic for discussing serious self hosting setups
- Check out his self-hosted bitcoin node guide and this companion piece
Bitcoin Optech goes drivechain-ey
The surprisingly simple math underlying the argument for monetary tail emission

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