Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22
– Taproot LOT OF LOTS https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/lottrue-or-lotfalse-this-is-the-last-hurdle-before-taproot-activation
– BitPay Sanctions Violations https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20210218
– Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-ends-virtual-currency-trading-platform-bitfinexs-illegal
– MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/press/microstrategy-acquires-additional-19452-bitcoins-for-1-026-billion_02-24-2021
– Square quarterly earnings https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312521052320/d128971dex991.htm
– Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021003168/coinbaseglobalincs-1.htm
– Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-February/018426.html
– Arthur Hayes emerges https://blog.bitmex.com/walkaway/
– Specter v1.2.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.0
– Onion Share v2.3 https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.3
– RTL v0.10.1 https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL/releases/tag/v0.10.1
– Hexa Wallet v1.4.5 https://github.com/bithyve/hexa/releases/tag/v1.4.5
– Samourai Dojo v1.9.0 https://code.samourai.io/dojo/samourai-dojo/-/blob/master/RELEASES.md#samourai-dojo-v190
– MyNode v0.2.27 https://github.com/mynodebtc/mynode/releases/tag/v0.2.27
– Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.2.0
– Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata https://blockstream.com/2021/02/23/en-gain-privacy-with-the-encrypted-blob/
– River raised $17.3M https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-brokerage-river-financial-funding-round
– BottlePay raised $15.5M https://www.coindesk.com/bottlepay-a-payments-startup-that-lets-you-send-bitcoin-on-social-media-raises-11m
– Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? https://quillette.com/2021/02/21/can-governments-stop-bitcoin/
– BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford https://blog.bitmex.com/100x-group-provides-third-grant-to-bitcoin-maintainer-michael-ford/
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