Rabbit Hole Recap #199: Bitcoin is dead, we're cancelling the show

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

• terra "stablecoin" blows up (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/lfg-bitcoin-reserves-at-risk)

• treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0768)

• cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/145363/block-reports-1-73-billion-in-bitcoin-sales-via-cash-app-during-q1-2022)

• coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/146161/coinbase-q1-2022-earnings-revenue)

• chainalysis valued at $8.6B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/crypto-forensics-startup-chainalysis-raises-170m-at-8-6b-valuation/)

• joinmarket v0.9.6 (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/crypto-forensics-startup-chainalysis-raises-170m-at-8-6b-valuation/)

• arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client (https://blog.torproject.org/arti_030_released/)

• casa launches api (https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-api-series-a/)

• rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-May/020450.html)

• conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch (https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd64-bip119-ctv-and-the-bitcoin-development-process-with-rusty_twit-and-brian_trollz/)

• spiral post on supporting open source (https://spiral.xyz/blog/a-framework-for-sustainable-open-source-bitcoin-development/)

• georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans (https://americandragnet.org/)

• grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/11/grayscale-tells-sec-that-turning-biggest-bitcoin-fund-into-etf-will-unlock-8-billion-for-investors.html)

• costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/costa-rica-declares-national-emergency-after-conti-ransomware-attacks/)

• CD64: BIP119, CTV (https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd64-bip119-ctv-and-the-bitcoin-development-process-with-rusty_twit-and-brian_trollz/), and the bitcoin development process with @rusty_twit and @brian_trollz - brian armstrong thread (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1524233480040710144?s=20&t=OAp202y0NWbXVMOQyXE3Zg)

• ishares high yield (https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HYG:NYSEARCA)

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