👉 The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - April 24th, 2021

This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.

  • Bitcoin Optech #145
  • 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 from 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