NewsCarpe Diem — Mark Zuckerberg’s stablecoin ambitions unravel with Diem sale talksAOPP – What is AOPP (Address Ownership Proof Protocol)? And, why is the bitcoin community up in arms about it?Hardware Wallet – "What kind of battery should power the hardware wallet we’re building?" 8-page SPADE.Mining – Report with data and estimates on miner location, energy mix, and carbon intensity.CoinKite – Podcast with NVK discussing Coldcard Mk4, NFC, Tapsigner, Satscard, operating without laptops or PCs, and moreArizona – State Senator introduces bill to make bitcoin legal tender in ArizonaTexas – Candidate for Governor of Texas lays out a plan for bitcoin to become legal tenderCorporations – Saylor and Dorsey to discuss how companies can introduce bitcoin into their products, services, or balance sheet. Feb 1-2. 100% virtual event. Register for free.Visa – Partners with over 65 crypto platforms – crypto-linked card usage soars despite price volatilityIRS – Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their faces to access their IRS tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday livesPresident – Joe Biden is going after bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and NFTsLeBron James – Establishes multi-year partnership with Crypto.comMeta – Trademarks bitcoin and crypto services in Brazil – “Design, development and implementation of software for third-party verification services for digital currency transactions, including (but not limited to) transactions involving Bitcoin currency.”Video of the WeekLightning ATM – Insert fiat, scan QR code, receive sats (1 min demo)Tweets of the WeekCash App – "Oh wow wow. @CashApp lightning integration... works. And it appears to work well. This is a big deal IMHO."Dave Portnoy – "Bought 29 bitcoins today."Nayib Bukele – "There are more than 50 million millionaires in the world. Imagine when each one of them decides they should own at least ONE bitcoin. But there will ever be only 21 million bitcoin. Not enough for even half of them. A gigantic price increase is just a matter of time."Impervious Browser – Layer 3 solution will be released on April 7th at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami. Request early access here.
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This Week in Bitcoin - Issue #5
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NewsCarpe Diem — Mark Zuckerberg’s stablecoin ambitions unravel with Diem sale talksAOPP – What is AOPP (Address Ownership Proof Protocol)? And, why is the bitcoin community up in arms about it?Hardware Wallet – "What kind of battery should power the hardware wallet we’re building?" 8-page SPADE.Mining – Report with data and estimates on miner location, energy mix, and carbon intensity.CoinKite – Podcast with NVK discussing Coldcard Mk4, NFC, Tapsigner, Satscard, operating without laptops or PCs, and moreArizona – State Senator introduces bill to make bitcoin legal tender in ArizonaTexas – Candidate for Governor of Texas lays out a plan for bitcoin to become legal tenderCorporations – Saylor and Dorsey to discuss how companies can introduce bitcoin into their products, services, or balance sheet. Feb 1-2. 100% virtual event. Register for free.Visa – Partners with over 65 crypto platforms – crypto-linked card usage soars despite price volatilityIRS – Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their faces to access their IRS tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday livesPresident – Joe Biden is going after bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and NFTsLeBron James – Establishes multi-year partnership with Crypto.comMeta – Trademarks bitcoin and crypto services in Brazil – “Design, development and implementation of software for third-party verification services for digital currency transactions, including (but not limited to) transactions involving Bitcoin currency.”Video of the WeekLightning ATM – Insert fiat, scan QR code, receive sats (1 min demo)Tweets of the WeekCash App – "Oh wow wow. @CashApp lightning integration... works. And it appears to work well. This is a big deal IMHO."Dave Portnoy – "Bought 29 bitcoins today."Nayib Bukele – "There are more than 50 million millionaires in the world. Imagine when each one of them decides they should own at least ONE bitcoin. But there will ever be only 21 million bitcoin. Not enough for even half of them. A gigantic price increase is just a matter of time."Impervious Browser – Layer 3 solution will be released on April 7th at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami. Request early access here.