The Sat Standard - Bitcoin Weekly - February 19th

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

Bitcoin Optech #187
“Okay So Your Bank Account Is Frozen” Starter Pack
Canada uses “emergency powers” to target bank accounts, bitcoin, funding, and insurance of protestors
Bitcoin protest fundraiser voluntarily shuts down while they determine best way to distribute funds
Canadian RCMP issues blacklist notice for bitcoin addresses connected to protest
Apple patches zero day exploit, update your devices
Biden expected to issue an executive order related to bitcoin regulation next week
US Gov seizes $7B held by Afghan Central Bank
Secret unapproved cia data collection program exposed
UN negotiating new “cybercrime” treaty
GRIID, Argo, and Block to be first customers of intel mining chip
ConocoPhillips selling previously flared nat gas to bitcoin miners
Congressman Davidson introduces bill to protect private bitcoin usage
More info on bitfinex hack investigation released
Proposed US bill targets El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption
FBI to form new bitcoin surveillance and seizure focused unit
BTCPay Server v.1.4.5
Bitcoin-s v1.9.0
Galoy money v0.1.21
Lightning terminal v0.6.3-alpha
Mercury wallet v0.6.4
Nix bitcoin v0.0.66
Thoughts on cashapps lightning user flow
satsxsw hackathon announced, march 12th and 13th
Fidelity launches bitcoin ETP in Europe, ticker FBTC
Swan launches bitcoin canon education portal
Coldcard announces $25K bounty for a react native NFC implementation
BlockFi agrees to pay $100M fine to SEC
Open source dashboard for asic prices