Non-Consensual Financial Choking

Intro

• Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief

News

• The UK believes that 'Britcoin',a government digital curency, will be deployed this decade

• Localbitcoins, a decentralized-ish peer to peer bitcoin exchange, is shuting down operations

  • Localbitcoins was mentioned in the bitzlato documents
  • Might be due to general pressure on many bitcoin businesses

• Binance, the offshore crypto exchange controled by CZ, is cut off from the USD banking system

  • This is a deathblow if they don't solve it quickly

• Is this a coordinated effort to push bitcoin/crypto businesses out of the banking system?

Economics

• Monetary Policy, specifically quantitative tightening, doesn't take money out of the righ places in the economy

Privacy

• Telegram, the Russian billionare owned chat app, seems to be sharing user messages to the Kremlin

Bitcoin Education

• The Coldcard Q1 hardware wallet was announced and looks like a blackberry, so lets talk hardware wallets

• Bitcoin Optech #237 covers 'storing data on the blockchain', yes its about Ordinals

Feedback

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Boosts

From: anonymous

• 10,000 sats

Thoughts on stratum V2 and its relative progress towards becoming the standard for pools? The Luxor incident seems to have highlighted the need for this.

• Stratum V2

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