Rabbit Hole Recap #231: There's a run on the bitcoin banks!

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- SBF arrested in Bahamas https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-bahamas-ftx-fraud-charges/

- EU to force companies to report user holdings https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/08/eu-to-make-crypto-companies-report-tax-details-to-authorities/

- US senate bill proposed to outlaw private bitcoin development and usage https://www.coincenter.org/the-digital-asset-anti-money-laundering-act-is-an-opportunistic-unconstitutional-assault-on-cryptocurrency-self-custody-developers-and-node-operators/

- Coinbase received 12320 government demands for customer info this year https://www.coinbase.com/blog/transparency-report-2022

- SBF secretly funded the block news org, ceo steps down https://www.axios.com/2022/12/09/bankman-fried-funded-crypto-news-site-block

- Jack Dorsey provides 14 bitcoin grant to Nostr https://twitter.com/jb55/status/1603404721913753600?s=20&t=0LGPgp_e2hheh5boQtsDqA

- Bitcoin Core v 0.24.0 had coin selection bug, latest version is v 0.24.1

- Twitter had FBI/CIA agents directing policy

- US Interest payment expense at $766B https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1602445402657226752

- Binance outflows and withdraws delayed https://twitter.com/Delphi_Digital/status/1603446036181258240?s=20&t=0LGPgp_e2hheh5boQtsDqA

9:02 - Self custody ATH
21:23 - BullBitcoin trouble with RBC
27:54 - Dashboard
33:27 - Matt's dogs love palindrome blocks
34:30 - SBF arrested in Bahamas
43:30 - Zombie McAfee
47:04 - EU forcing privacy violations
58:04 - DAAML
1:06:49 - Bitcoin cannot be centrally controlled
1:18:54 - Coinbase transparency report
1:24:54 - SBF secretly bought The Block
1:37:39 - Bitcoin Core v0.24.1
1:41:49 - Shoutouts
1:54:29 - Jack Dorsey donates to Nostr
2:04:09 - Bitcoin Takeover
2:06:26 - Twitter files
2:22:35 - US interest expense
2:24:30 - Boostagrams
2:28:02 - Who would lend the US money?

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