Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

• coinbase launches revamped surveillance product (https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-intelligence-crypto-compliance-at-scale-f58daa949082)

• SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-78)

• cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews)

• fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant (https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-conducted-potentially-millions-of-searches-of-americans-data-last-year-report-says-11651253728)

• bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA (https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bitcoin_Letter_to_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency.pdf)

• how women view bitcoin (https://spiral.xyz/how-women-across-the-world-view-bitcoin.pdf)

• mycitadel v1.0 (https://github.com/mycitadel/mycitadel-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.0)

• seed tool v1.0.4 (https://twitter.com/BitcoinQ_A/status/1521861147137388545)

• tor v0.4.7.7 (https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/%20-%20mk4%20shipping%20+%20new%20firmware)

• cold card upgrade (https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade)

• lightning multiplexer (https://bottlepay.com/blog/multiplexer)

• new lightning only vpn (http://lnvpn.net/)

• voltage podcast index study (https://voltage.cloud/blog/case-studies/podcast-index-value-for-value-case-study/)

• Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tauros-ibex-mercado-partner-for-mexicos-first-lightning-enabled-bitcoin-exchange)

• currency of last resort by gladstein (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/currency-of-last-resort)

• paypal being used to censor speech (https://taibbi.substack.com/p/paypals-indymedia-wipeout?s=r)

• all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/judge-rules-every-isp-in-us-must-block-pirate-sites-run-by-mysterious-defendants/)

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