Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.17

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · May 20, 2021 · 2h 3m

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

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