News13 – As Bitcoin turns 13, the network is more secure than everKazakhstan – One-fifth of global bitcoin mining capacity taken out by government-imposed Internet shutdownRay Dalio – Allocating up to 2% of your portfolio to bitcoin is reasonableEl Salvador – Drafts 20 bills for legal structure of bitcoin bonds, funds to build Bitcoin City, and buy more bitcoinFold – 2021 year in review: 9B sats given out, 1.75%/3.34% back on average, 15M wheel spinsLopp – 2021 year in review: Comprehensive coverage of metrics across several different verticals in the Bitcoin ecosystem to gauge performance in 2021Web3 – My first impressions of Web3 by Moxie Marlinspike (Founder and CEO of Signal)TBD – Built to last… an open approach to financial freedom. Financial freedom is To Be Developed.BTCS – Company to pay out dividends in bitcoinAirbnb – Accepting “crypto payments” is the top feature request out of 4,000 requestsLebanon – Fiat currency has lost more than 95% of its value in the past two yearsPayPal – Exploring issuing a stablecoin called “PayPal Coin”Binance – CEO, CZ, now holds the world’s largest amount of crypto estimated to be worth close to $100BFunding425M sats (or 4.25 BTC): Bitcoin Development Fund by HRF – Support is targeted at core development, privacy-focused wallets, Lightning, and global translation and education. 10 grants were given:100M sats: Jarol Rodriguez for his work on Bitcoin Core50M sats: Farida Nabourema to create the “Togo Bitcoin Academy” 50M sats: Sparrow Wallet for their open-source desktop product. Download here.50M sats: Roya Mahboob to support “The Women’s Annex” a platform that allows female content creators to get paid in bitcoin 50M sats: Anita Posch to create the “Bitcoin for Fairness Foundation”. Goal is to help bring BTC to millions through educational work particularly in emerging market countries.25M sats: Boltz is a non-custodial bitcoin exchange built on Lightning. Grant is to support Taproot and Liquid.25M sats: Summer of Bitcoin to support global summer internships focused on introducing university students to Bitcoin development25M sats: Exonumia is a Bitcoin non-profit translating Bitcoin educational content into native African languages25M sats: Blockchain Commons to expand Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line to include more Lightning info and expand Gordian Server to auto-deploy Lightning25M sats: Meron Estefanos for Bitcoin education in Eritrea and the Horn of Africa $300k: StackerNews – Reddit styled news; upvoting with satsImages of the WeekKazakhstan – Internet disrupted as energy protests escalateKazakhstan – 12% hash rate drop since the Internet shutdownChainalysis – Report: Illicit activity actually a tiny part (0.15%) of cryptocurrency use∞/21 million – Original hand-drawn artwork from Bitko Yinowsky
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This Week in Bitcoin - Issue #2
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News13 – As Bitcoin turns 13, the network is more secure than everKazakhstan – One-fifth of global bitcoin mining capacity taken out by government-imposed Internet shutdownRay Dalio – Allocating up to 2% of your portfolio to bitcoin is reasonableEl Salvador – Drafts 20 bills for legal structure of bitcoin bonds, funds to build Bitcoin City, and buy more bitcoinFold – 2021 year in review: 9B sats given out, 1.75%/3.34% back on average, 15M wheel spinsLopp – 2021 year in review: Comprehensive coverage of metrics across several different verticals in the Bitcoin ecosystem to gauge performance in 2021Web3 – My first impressions of Web3 by Moxie Marlinspike (Founder and CEO of Signal)TBD – Built to last… an open approach to financial freedom. Financial freedom is To Be Developed.BTCS – Company to pay out dividends in bitcoinAirbnb – Accepting “crypto payments” is the top feature request out of 4,000 requestsLebanon – Fiat currency has lost more than 95% of its value in the past two yearsPayPal – Exploring issuing a stablecoin called “PayPal Coin”Binance – CEO, CZ, now holds the world’s largest amount of crypto estimated to be worth close to $100BFunding425M sats (or 4.25 BTC): Bitcoin Development Fund by HRF – Support is targeted at core development, privacy-focused wallets, Lightning, and global translation and education. 10 grants were given:100M sats: Jarol Rodriguez for his work on Bitcoin Core50M sats: Farida Nabourema to create the “Togo Bitcoin Academy” 50M sats: Sparrow Wallet for their open-source desktop product. Download here.50M sats: Roya Mahboob to support “The Women’s Annex” a platform that allows female content creators to get paid in bitcoin 50M sats: Anita Posch to create the “Bitcoin for Fairness Foundation”. Goal is to help bring BTC to millions through educational work particularly in emerging market countries.25M sats: Boltz is a non-custodial bitcoin exchange built on Lightning. Grant is to support Taproot and Liquid.25M sats: Summer of Bitcoin to support global summer internships focused on introducing university students to Bitcoin development25M sats: Exonumia is a Bitcoin non-profit translating Bitcoin educational content into native African languages25M sats: Blockchain Commons to expand Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line to include more Lightning info and expand Gordian Server to auto-deploy Lightning25M sats: Meron Estefanos for Bitcoin education in Eritrea and the Horn of Africa $300k: StackerNews – Reddit styled news; upvoting with satsImages of the WeekKazakhstan – Internet disrupted as energy protests escalateKazakhstan – 12% hash rate drop since the Internet shutdownChainalysis – Report: Illicit activity actually a tiny part (0.15%) of cryptocurrency use∞/21 million – Original hand-drawn artwork from Bitko Yinowsky