Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

• ethereum privacy tool tornado cash sanctioned (https://archive.ph/m7RUn)

• tornado cash github repo taken down, same with dev accounts (https://nitter.net/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059)

• coincenter on sanctions (https://www.coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-sanction-of-privacy-tools-places-sweeping-restrictions-on-all-americans/)

• btc-e exchange operator extradited to US (https://darknetlive.com/post/btc-e-owner-extradited-to-united-states/)

• proposal to require large hedge funds to disclose cryptocurrency positions (https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-weigh-asking-hedge-funds-to-report-crypto-exposure-11660140000)

• blackrock launches bitcoin private trust (https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/bitcoin-private-trust)

• tropic square open source secure chip begins production (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tropic-square-launches-open-source-chip-prototype-for-bitcoin-hardware)

• easy inbound liquidity using voltage (https://voltage.cloud/blog/feature-updates/effortless-inbound-channel-opening-for-voltage-nodes/)

• more details on Block's hardware wallet (https://wallet.build/losing-your-keys-without-losing-your-coins/)

• motiv launches 16 circular economies in Peru (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/motiv-launches-16-bitcoin-economies-in-peru)

• sms provider twilio compromised (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/twilio-breach-customer-data/)

• email provider Klaviyo compromised, impacts customers of 44 bitcoin companies including swan (https://www.klaviyo.com/blog/august-2022-security-incident)

• border wallets explained (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/border-wallets-help-users-memorize-bitcoin-seed-phrases)

• fiatjaf on value4value (https://fiatjaf.com/8e10f738.html)

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