Announcements

• Respect People’s Privacy
• Interaction And Asking Questions Are Encouraged
• Chatham House Rules
• Apply For A Bitcoin Job
• Join Our Telegram Group
• Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations
• Coinkite Giveaway
• Future Meetup Venue

Bitcoin KPIs

• Clark Moody’s Bitcoin Dashboard

Geopolitics

• Central African Republic To Launch Bitcoin, Crypto Hub
• Lummis/Gillibrand Introduce Responsible Financial Innovation Act
• Human Rights Leaders Pen Letter To US Congress For Responsible Bitcoin Legislation

Market/Adoption

• Stripe To Enable Millions Of Merchants To Convert Payments Into Bitcoin Via OpenNode
• Only The Strong Survive
  • Celsius Halts Bitcoin Withdrawals Amid Price Crash
  • FTX Bails Out BlockFi With $250m Revolving Credit Facility Amid Complaints Of Withdrawal Delays
  • Twitter Breakdown About Three Arrows Capital
• Strike And HRF Announce $100k Grant For BTCPayServer At Oslo Freedom Forum
• Block Inc Released A Survey Discussing Misconceptions Surrounding Bitcoin
• Jack Dorsey And Jay-Z Announce The Bitcoin Academy In Brooklyn, NY
• IBEX Onboards 85 Merchants In Miami To The Bitcoin Lightning Network
• Deloitte And NYDIG Announce Alliance To Provide Banking For All With Bitcoin

Technology

• Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-Based Decentralized Web5
• Lightning Network Developer Summit 2022 Notes & Summary/Commentary
• Ongoing DDoS Attempt Impacting The Tor Network
• Hackathon Project To Use LDK To Probe The Lightning Network For The Detection Of Private Channels

Mining

• How Bitcoin Can Unlock The Energy Of The Ocean For 1 Billion People
• New York State To Place Moratorium On Non-Renewable Bitcoin Mining
• Kenya’s Largest Power Provider To Offer Geothermal Energy To Bitcoin Miners
• Third Largest Russian Oil Company Gazpromneft Partners With Bitriver To Mine Bitcoin
• Compass Mining Hosting Facility In Maine Terminates Agreement After Missed Energy Payments

Optional Topics

• Russia Defaults On Foreign Debt For First Time Since 1918
• Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Says Economy Has “Completely Collapsed”
• 191% Inflation And 190% Interest Rates In Zimbabwe
• UK Inflation Rises To A New 40-Year High Of 9.1%
• Proshares To Release ETF That Allows Investors To Short Bitcoin
• China Bank Protest Stopped By Health Codes Turning Red
• Paypal Now Allows Bitcoin Transfers To External Wallets
• Ethiopian Central Bank Reminds Citizens Business Transactions Using Bitcoin Are “Illegal”
• Janet Yellen Backtracks On “Transitory Inflation” In CNN Interview
• BitMEX Founder Hayes Avoids Prison On Bank Secrecy Charge
• Bitcoin Park Launches In Nashville, TN
• Bitcoin Is Losing Favor On Darknet Markets
• Whitepaper Drops For New Decentralized Mixer Based On MuSig Signature Aggregation: DMix
• Ex-Developer For Wasabi Wallet Warns Against Wasabi 2.0 Usage
• P2P LN Trading Protocol Robosats Enables Withdrawals Directly To Cold Storage
• Silent Payments Improve Privacy Without Adding Data To Bitcoin
• Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol
• How The Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data