Announcements

• Bitcoin Pizza Day
• Respect People’s Privacy
• Interaction And Asking Questions Are Encouraged
• Chatham House Rules
• Join Our Telegram Group
• Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations
• Azteco Vendor

Bitcoin KPIs

• Clark Moody’s Bitcoin Dashboard

Geopolitics

• El Salvador Hosts Central Bankers And Financial Regulators From 44 Countries To Discuss Bitcoin And Financial Inclusion
• 100,000 Cubans Are Using Bitcoin In Response To U.S. Sanctions
• Panama Assembly Passes Bill Regulating Bitcoin, Crypto
• Central Bank Of Argentina Bans Banks From Offering Bitcoin, Crypto Services
• The “Schools And Bitcoin” Project Is Launching For 40 High Schools In Argentina
• U.S. Treasury Issues First-Ever Sanctions On A Virtual Currency Mixer, Targets DPRK Cyber Threats

Market/Adoption

• Lessons Learned From The Terra Stablecoin Depegging/Luna Token Collapse
  • Lyn Alden’s Post-Mortem On Terra/Luna
• Fidelity To Allow Bitcoin Investments In Retirement Plans
• Coinbase Stock Slides After First-Quarter Net Loss Of $430 Million
• Human Rights Foundation Grants 5 BTC To Bitcoin Projects

Technology

• Casa Announces New API And $21 Million Series A
• Recent Controversy Around BIP 119 (CheckTemplateVerify) Covenant Proposal
• Rusty Russell Releases Alternative Covenants Proposal: OP_TX
  • Citadel Dispatch Episode With Rusty Discussing OP_TX
• Spiral Releases Framework For Sustainable Open-Source Bitcoin Development
• CoinCorner Releases BoltCard: An NFC Payment Card Using LNURL
• Bitcoin Startup Amboss Launches Unique Lightning Liquidity Marketplace
• Synonym Launches Blocktank Service Provider For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

Mining

• Bitcoin Is Halfway To The Next Halving As Of Block 735,000
• Bitcoin Hash Rate, Mining Difficulty Hit New All-Time Highs
• Bitcoin Mining Hash Price Hits Multi-Year Lows
• Fort Worth, Texas Becomes First City Government In The U.S To Mine Bitcoin
• The Bitcoin Mining Council Writes Letter To EPA Refuting Bitcoin Energy FUD
  • Bitcoin Policy Institute Response

Optional Topics

• Package Relay Proposal
• Turkey Inflation Data Shows Annual 70% CPI Increase
• Georgetown Law Research Shows ICE Tracks 75% Of Americans
• El Salvador Scoops Up 500 BTC During The Dip
• El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Released Model Of Bitcoin City
• Norwegian Bitcoin Mining Ban Was Struck Down
• Chainalysis Raises $170m At $8.6b Valuation
• Microstrategy To Allow Employees To Invest In Bitcoin As Part Of 401(K) Plan
• Goldman Sachs Partners With Coinbase For Bank’s First Bitcoin-Backed Loan
• World’s Largest Family-Owned Private Bank Now Offers Bitcoin
• California Governor Signs Executive Order Encouraging Bitcoin And Crypto Businesses
• Vitalik Makes Case for Bitcoin
• Joe Lubin on PoW vs PoS
• Libra Creator David Marcus Begins New Lightning Network Venture, Lightspark
• Taro Explainer Video From Lightning Labs
• Nate’s Interview With Compass Mining About OTEC