Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.19

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals

- WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl

- Coin Center responds strongly against FATF

- Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban

- Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam

- OKEx adds lightning support

- Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats

- Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released

- UASF Taproot client released

- Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients

- myNode v0.2.30

- Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview

- Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment

- Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US

- Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board

- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II

- Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite

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