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Australian Bitcoin Podcast
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The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on: Australian bitcoin news, educational episodes, privacy content and industry leader interviews.
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twitter.com/danWilcz
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Join software engineer and open-source expert Andrew Pantyukhin this week to discuss BitcoinCore, the fundamental implementation of Bitcoin. You'll learn about Bitcoin development and some of his concerns.
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Host: twitter.com/danWilcz
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Content:
- His involvement in Bitcoin
- Is there Bitcoin development still?
- Bitcoin consensus
- Is diversity good for Bitcoin?
- The people working on BitcoinCore
- Is ossification a good thing?
- The future of Bitcoin development
Full YouTube: Ep68 Unravelling BitcoinCore
This special episode covers what the Bitcoin Halving is, answers to common questions and a recap of what happened to the bitcoin price around previous halvings.
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Content:
- What is the Bitcoin Halving?
- Common questions answered
- The price of bitcoin
- What happened in previous halvings?
Full YouTube: Ep67 Bitcoin Halving Explained Simply
There was a lot of news to cover in March across Australia and Internationally. We also celebrate Hardblock's 10th birthday and AUD$100k bitcoin.
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Global News
• EU wallet privacy attempt through Anti-Money-Laundering Laws
• US “Tiktok Ban Bill” passes house 352 votes - 65 votes and goes to the senate
• Roman Sterlingov found guilty of running Bitcoin Fog mixing service
Australian News
• Craig Wright court case concluded with ruling he is not Satoshi
• Australian Digital Identity Scheme bill passes after Greens' amendments
• Australian Court Dismisses Lawsuit by Market Regulator Against Finder in 'Landmark' Ruling for Crypto Industry
• Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted the right fight his extradition to the US----
Technical News
• First half of March of Software and Hardware updates
• Second half of March Software and Hardware updates
• BitKey hardware wallet from Block
• Mobile-native hardware wallet from TwentyTwo Devices
Full YouTube: Ep66 March News
Thank you to James Check for joining us this week to talk all about Bitcoin on-chain analytics:
- twitter.com/_checkmatey_
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Content:
- What is on-chain analytics?
- On-chain insights into ETFs
- The Bitcoin Halving Event
- Identifying the market top & bottom
- Common questions answered
- The success of BTC education in the data
Full YouTube: Ep65 James Check
Our monthly recap for February focuses on a lot of International news, as well as discussion of new Bitcoin milestones that were reached.
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Get excited for Australian Bitcoin Week!
Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash, Mar 16 - 17 - No KYC, free entry
Bitcoin Alive, Mar 23 - tickets on sale now!
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Global News
• US Department of Energy seeks data from US bitcoin miners
• Binance and Coinbase crash
• EU Courts rule encryption as Human Right
• Satoshi and Sirius emails
• Nayib Bukele reelected
• Ethiopa to mine bitcoin with $250 million preliminary agreement
• Nigerian Government issues arrest warrant for CEO of Binance
• Tether Audit
Australian News
• ASIC gets its first win against the crypto industry
• Bloomberg Australian news recap
• Australian Bitcoin Alive Conference 2024
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Technical News
• New Coldcard model Q released
• Nunchuck Android released
• Umbrel OS v1.0 coming March 18th
• Avalon Nano 3 portable heater that generates btc
Full YouTube: Ep64 February News
Thanks to Chris Pavlesic for coming on the show to talk about Bitcoin Alive 2024:
- twitter.com/lungdoge
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Content:
- Getting together is the core recipe for BA '24
- Look forward to things you don't often see at Bitcoin conferences
- Bush Bash Beechworth '24
- What you can expect from speakers at BA '24
Full YouTube: Ep63 Chris Pavlesic
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Global News
OpenSats announces over $4.3M Bitcoin grants and $3.4M Nostr grants were allocated in 2023 in Year-in-review
Aqua Wallet launches as an all-in-one wallet with support for Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, and Tether
Scam Bitcoin Wallets Are Still Reigning Free on Apple's App Store Despite Multiple Reports
Nigeria’s Central Bank Fleshes Out New Rule Allowing Crypto Firms’ Access to Bank Accounts
Bitcoin Victoria Falls: New Bitcoin Circular Economy in Livingstone, Zambia
SEC Approves 11 Bitcoin Spot ETF Applications
VanEck To Donate 5% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Support Bitcoin Core Developers, while Bitwise pledges 10% to support Brink, OpenSats and the HRF Bitcoin Development Fund
Google, Apple Pull Binance, Kraken and Other Exchanges from India App Stores
Stripe Is Deplatforming Users For Selling Bitcoin Hardware
Core Scientific Is Ready to Emerge from Bankruptcy and Re-list on Nasdaq by the End of January
UN Report Attacks Tether for Facilitating Global Crime
Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider
Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses
Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode
Bitcoin Surpasses Silver to Become Second Largest ETF Commodity in the US
Australian News
Lack of bitcoin futures might restrict future Aussie bitcoin ETF
Bitcoin Alive 2024: Australia Gears Up For The Ultimate Bitcoin Experience - get tickets at Bitcoin Alive, use code: HARDBLOCK
US, UK and Australia step up sanctions on Hamas-linked crypto facilitators
Technical News
The 3rd Edition of Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain has been open-sourced on GitHub
Mercury Layer 2 protocol release enables self-custodial UTXO transfers off chain
Fedimint v0.2.1 Stable MVP release
Coracle v0.4.0 Private Groups on Nostr
Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK) v0.13.0 and developers Dan Gould and Esraa given Spiral grants
BitKit v1.0.0-beta.98: Pay to Lightning Addresses, In-App Support & More
OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support to René Pickhardt
Base58 Ships Its Crypto + Digital Signatures Course for Bitcoin Developers
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Host: https://twitter.com/danWilcz
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Get excited for Australian Bitcoin Week!
Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash, Mar 16 - 17 - No KYC, free entry
Bitcoin Alive, Mar 23 - tickets on sale now!
More events to be announced!
Skip to 6:20 if you hate Christmas (Dan & Alex's Christmas holiday intro)
Global News
Argentina Repeals Forced Legal Tender Laws for Contracts, Confirms Debts Can Now Be Settled in Bitcoin
Argentina's Milei Proposes Incentives for Declaring Domestic, Foreign Crypto Holdings in Draft Bill
Legends of Lightning Vol. 2 Winners Announced
FASB update for fair value accounting for Bitcoin by US public companies from 2025
Ledger CEO explains hack, calls it 'isolated' incident
Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service
Crypto Industry Funnels $78 Million Into War Chest to Elect Pro-Crypto Candidates in 2024 Elections
Tether Confirms Extensive Collaboration With DOJ, FBI and Secret Service
Adam Back Says 'Suck That Truthoors' as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Reveals Company Holds Tether's Treasuries
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Extend Bank Secrecy Act Regulations to Free & Open Source Software
Australian News
Australian Bitcoin Week 2024:Bitcoin Bush Bash in Beechworh, VIC on 16 - 17 MarBitcoin Alive in Sydney on 23 Mar - sponsored by Hardblock+satellite events
OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support to Australian Bitcoin developer Tobin Harding
Australian Cash Use in Decline as 75% of Residents Now Seen as 'Low Cash Users'
Technical News
OCEAN Mining pool offers choice of three mining block template policies
Start your career in Bitcoin FOSS with Learning @ Chaincode Labs
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special
The Bitcoin Design Foundation launches supporting design in Bitcoin ecosystem
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Global News
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud
Tether Q3 Attestation Show Highest Percentage of Cash & Cash Equivalent Reserves Yielding Close to ~$1Bn
Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch
PayPal Subpoenaed by the SEC Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin
Gemini UK to Block Bitcoin Transfers To and From Non-Approved Exchanges
Fake Ledger Live App on Microsoft App Store Used to Steal 16.8+ BTC
Roman Sterlingov's Defense To Examine Chainalysis Heuristics Under Protective Order, Trial Moved to February
Swan Bitcoin to Limit Customers Interacting with Privacy Services Due to Partner Policy
Coin Center's Tornado Cash OFAC Sanctions Lawsuit Dismissed Due to DAO Structure and TORN Shitcoin
Armed Bitcoin Robberies Surge In Sweden Due to Open Data on Citizens
Chat Control: EU Parliament Adopts Position Against Mass Surveillance
Anarcho-Capitalist Javier Milei Wins Argentine Presidency
Bittrex Global Is Shutting Down For Good
SEC Sues Kraken For Operating Unregistered Securities Platform
Report that F2Pool Is Likely Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions, followed by an admission of filtering with F2Pool Disabling Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now)
CZ Pleads Guilty, Steps Down as CEO of Binance in $4.3 Billion Settlement with DOJ
Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada
Ministers accused of a cover up as it is revealed shadowy army unit DID spy on British critics of Covid lockdown policies
Taproot Wizards raises $7.5MM & hires rot13maxi as CTO
Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding, leveraging Stratum V2
Australian News
Wallet of Satoshi to Stop Serving Customers in the United States
Whistleblower alleges ANZ is deliberately pushing customers out of branches
RBA lifted cash rate to 4.35pc in November
Crypto hack suggests Australia’s CoinSpot has been compromised
Australian regulators will compel businesses to report cyberattacks: Report
Commbank iQ data shows younger Australians now even cutting back on essentials, as rents and mortgage costs rise
Australia Updates Its Capital Gains Tax Guidance to Include Wrapped Tokens and DeFi
Technical News
85% of Whirlpool Users Are Using Self-Hosted Solutions
Bitcoin-Dev Mailing List Is (Still) Looking for New Home
Mutiny Wallet Makes Sending Hodl Zaps to Zeus Wallet An Optional Feature
83 BTC Transaction Fee Sets a New Record in Fiat Terms
Apple Deactivates Zeus Developer Account Following Antitrust Lawsuit by Cash App & Venmo Users
User lost 0.4 btc after only making a single dice roll when inputting user generated entropy for coldcard
How to setup a Bitcoin Air-Gap Computer? Don't. - Website outlining air gap computer attacks and why to use a hardware wallet instead
Atomicals marketplace disaster results in loss of funds due to use of SIGHASH_NONE
Randstorm entropy vulnerability affects significant number of browser generated cryptocurrency wallets
rot13maxi releases Sophon source to snipe BRC20 mints from the mempool
FediMint changes consensus algorithm from HBBFT to AlephBFT
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Thanks to our guest Fernando Nikolić from Blockstream and the Bitcoin Perception newsletter:
- https://twitter.com/basedlayer
- https://bitcoinperception.com
Content:
How trying to understand Argentina's hyperinflation lead Fernando to Bitcoin
Why are Bitcoiners so interested in an Argentinian election?
Javier Milei's ability to communicate to the average Argentinian
History of Peronism
Bureaucracy in Argentina
Dollarization
Is Javier Milei pro-bitcoin?
Bitcoin Perception newsletter
Media is starting to realise the difference between Bitcoin vs Crypto
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Thanks to our guest Pipellia from Runcitadel:
https://twitter.com/pippellia
- https://runcitadel.space/ (under maintenance now 🫤)
- https://geyser.fund/project/runcitadel
Plug & Play Nodes
- https://geyser.fund/project/nabitechnology
- https://dtvelectronics.com/
Content:
-Why is it important to run a node?
-Hard money vs Dark money
-Should every bitcoiner run a node?
-What is a node?
-Runcitadel and FOSS
-Node packages
-Pipellia's bitcoin origins and orange-pilling
DerGigi on time:
- Ledgers require time, and time requires heat.
https://x.com/dergigi/status/1392409660154646529
- Bitcoin is time
https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
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Global News
Elizabeth Warren uses Hamas as her newest scapegoat in war on crypto
Our Data in WSJ Article on Hamas Crypto Fundraising 'Was Misrepresented', Says Surveillance Firm Elliptic
CEO of Nchain Group Quits, Admits That Craig Wright is a Fraud
Argentina’s Pro-Bitcoin Javier Milei Heads to Run-Off Election Against Sergio Massa
Madeira Announces The Launch of Bitcoin Business Hub
Twitter/X’s new policy risks violating right to privacy for millions
El Salvador's First Bitcoin mining pool powered by volcano energy goes live
US Government Argues That Disclosure of Chainalysis Heuristics Would 'Jeopardize Law Enforcement Investigations'
1.4 Billion People Lack Access to Financial Services - PwC Report
UK's Law Enforcement Can Now Seize Bitcoin Linked to Criminal Activity Without Conviction
Botev Plovdiv FC, Bulgaria's oldest football club is the first elite level football team to embrace bitcoin
Australian News
Australia Proposes New Licensing Regime for Crypto Exchanges, Aims for Draft Legislation by 2024
NSW Government turns directly to banks with garnishee orders to recoup unpaid COVID-19 hotel quarantine bills
Australian Exchanges Respond to New Australian Treasury Crypto Proposal
‘Billion dollar ticking bomb’ for SMSFs buying bitcoin
Technical News
The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years - River Research
Postmortem on the Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack
How does a lightning replacement cycling attack work?
BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
Hostr: Decentralized Web Hosting Solution on Nostr
Trezor Introduces Safe 3 Signing Device & Trezor Keep Metal Backup
Wasabi Wallet Announced Coinjoin API for Enterprises
Block Completes The First Prototype of MDK Hashboard
OpenSats Announces Third Wave of Nostr Grants
Lightspark Introduced Travel Rule Compliant LNURL for Regulated Entities
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Thanks to our guest Maryna from Kova Tax and Syla:
https://twitter.com/KovalenkoMaryna
https://www.kovatax.com.au/
https://www.syla.com.au/
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Content:
- Maryna's Bitcoin origin story
- Bitcoin in the Russia Ukraine War
- Bitcoin tax basics
- Capital gains examples
- Accounting for losses due to exchange insolvency (Digital surge, FTX)
- Overseas travel and tax residency
- Personal use exemption
- Fringe Benefits Tax and getting paid in Bitcoin
-Kova Tax and Syla tax software tips
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Thanks to our guest Dea:
https://twitter.com/dearezkitha
Indonesiabitcoinconference.com
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Content:
- Deas journey in Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin adoption in Bali
- Anti-Bitcoin laws in Indonesia
- Bitcoin community in Bali
- Indonesian Bitcoin conference speakers
- Social events at the conference
- How she convinced Jack Dorsey to attend
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Thanks to our guest Tarik:
https://twitter.com/tarik_sammour
Content:
- Who is Tarik
- How he orange-pills his fellow medical professionals
- Medical inflation
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Thanks to our guest Jeff Yew:
https://twitter.com/jeffyew_
https://www.monochrome.au/
Content:
- Jeff's early work with Travelbybit and as CEO of Binance Australia
- Jeffs take on the latest Binance regulatory troubles
- What is Monochrome and the Bitcoin ETF process in Australia
- The implications of Blackrock getting into Bitcoin
Petition requesting the Reserve Bank of Australia HODL 2% of assets in Bitcoin
http://bitcoinpetition.me
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Thanks to our guest Jeremy Majid:
https://twitter.com/AusBTCIndBody
https://twitter.com/AusBTCIndBody
Content:
- Who is Jeremy Majid?
- What is ABIB
- Australian regulatory landscape and the work of ABIB
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Thanks to our guest Peter Dunworth:
https://twitter.com/dunworth_peter
https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/
Content:
- Peters Background
- Aussie economy
- Bitcoin as an investment asset
- Bitcoin inheritance planning
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Notes
What is happening with US Banks
Causes of the bank collapse
Impact on Bitcoin and economy
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Notes
- What are NFTs
- History of NFTs
- Motivation for creating Ordinals
- What are Ordinals
- Criticism of Ordinals
- The Case for Ordinals
- How to get started with Ordinals
Find out more about Ordinals by going to:
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https://twitter.com/rodarmor