Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- coinbase launches revamped surveillance product
https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-intelligence-crypto-compliance-at-scale-f58daa949082

- SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-78

- cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews

- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-conducted-potentially-millions-of-searches-of-americans-data-last-year-report-says-11651253728

- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA
https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bitcoin_Letter_to_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency.pdf

- how women view bitcoin
https://spiral.xyz/how-women-across-the-world-view-bitcoin.pdf

- mycitadel v1.0
https://github.com/mycitadel/mycitadel-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.0

- seed tool v1.0.4
https://twitter.com/BitcoinQ_A/status/1521861147137388545

- tor v0.4.7.7
https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/

- mk4 shipping + new firmware
https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade

- lightning multiplexer
https://bottlepay.com/blog/multiplexer

- new lightning only vpn
http://lnvpn.net/

- voltage podcast index study
https://voltage.cloud/blog/case-studies/podcast-index-value-for-value-case-study/

- Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tauros-ibex-mercado-partner-for-mexicos-first-lightning-enabled-bitcoin-exchange

- currency of last resort by gladstein
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/currency-of-last-resort

- paypal being used to censor speech
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/paypals-indymedia-wipeout?s=r

- all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/judge-rules-every-isp-in-us-must-block-pirate-sites-run-by-mysterious-defendants/