This week Marty and Matt discuss:

  • taproot activates successfully at block 609732

  • muun wallet adds taproot support

  • SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf

  • Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard

  • crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years

  • tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning

  • Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill

  • Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill

  • IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year

  • btcpayserver v1.3.5

  • lnd v0.14.0-beta

  • mercury wallet v0.4.51

  • simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18

  • immortan v0.5.6

  • fully noded v0.2.30

  • umbrel v0.4.8

  • hexa wallet v2.0.2

  • ledger live desktop v2.35.1

  • bitcoin banking for communities

  • reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin

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