This week Marty and Matt discuss:

  • our two first $10K candles and it was the same day!

  • hash rate appears to have dropped

  • dutch bank no longer requiring withdrawal address verification

  • cross browser tracking vulnerability

  • chaos at freenode

  • libsecp256k1 improvements have sped up bitcoin core validation by 7%

  • darkside says servers and bitcoin seized, all decryption keys to be released

  • elliptic follows darkside funds https://archive.ph/lBa2C and oxt provides cluster

  • argentina authorities force exchanges to provide data

  • US Treasury wants a $10K transfer reporting requirement

  • whirlpool cli v0.10.11

  • ronindojo v1.10.0

  • sparrow wallet v1.4.1

  • chess tournament with $100K bitcoin prize

  • galaxy digital on bitcoin energy consumption

  • wharton receives $5M worth of bitcoin

  • anthony towns on taproot activation

  • chinese gov and apple servers

  • follow up to last week's solar comments

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