Rabbit Hole Recap #217: The Queen is dead and the Biden Administration hates mining

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

• white house mining report (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09-2022-Crypto-Assets-and-Climate-Report.pdf)

• poolin appears insolvent (https://help.poolin.me/hc/en-us/articles/10207618877977-Announcement-on-settlement-adjustment-and-ZERO-fee-promo)

• coinbase funding legal challenge to tornado cash sanctions (https://blog.coinbase.com/defending-privacy-in-crypto-e09db33dece8)

• russia to use cryptocurrency for international trade (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/russia-to-legalize-use-of-crypto-in-international-trade)

• HRF donates $325K to bitcoin development (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-makes-q3-bitcoin-donations)

• australian feds form unit dedicated to tracking and seizing bitcoin (https://archive.ph/ubyoN)

• fountain v0.4.8 (https://fountainpodcasts.substack.com/p/fountain-0-4-6)

• zeus v0.6.6 (https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.6.6)

• this month in bitcoin privacy (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/August_2022/)

• arcane research on bitcoin mining and energy industry (https://arcane.no/research/reports/how-bitcoin-mining-can-transform-the-energy-industry)

• IRS doxxes 120K tax payers (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/irs-says-it-exposed-some-confidential-taxpayer-data-on-website-11662148381)

• hosted vpn providers shut down in india (https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-vpn-providers-pull-india-servers-over-new-cybersecurity-rules-11662024603)

• law enforcement using new location tracking tool without warrants (https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef)

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