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Bitcoin KPIs

• Clark Moody’s Bitcoin Dashboard

Geopolitics

• US Treasury adds Tornado Cash to OFAC sanctions list
  • Coin Center analysis: what is and what is not a sanctionable entity in the Tornado Cash case
  • BTC Policy Institute statement on Tornado Cash
  • A suspected Tornado Cash developer was arrested in Amsterdam
  • Is Bitcoin next after Tornado Cash?
• FDIC issues cease and desist letters to five crypto companies about false/misleading claims about deposit insurance
• Defending BTC telethon fundraiser on 8/26 for hodlonaut’s legal defense
  • Timeline of the legal battle between hodlonaut and Faketoshi
  • Greg Maxwell’s response/context about why this case matters
  • OpenSats introduces Legal Defense Fund to defend open source Bitcoin contributors
• Victorian police to get ‘greater power’ to seize crypto assets from criminals

Market/Adoption

• BlackRock wants your sats
  • BlackRock to offer Bitcoin trading/custody in new Coinbase partnership
  • BlackRock launches spot Bitcoin private trust
• U.S. inflation only 8.5% in July
• Motiv launches 16 Bitcoin economies in Peru
• Vinteum non-profit launches to fund Bitcoin developers in Brazil/Latin America
• River introduces zero-fee recurring Bitcoin purchases

Technology

• Bitcoin Independence Day on 8/1
  • “The History Of Bitcoin Independence Day” video by Bitcoin Magazine
• Bitcoin without internet: SMS service allows sending BTC with a text
• Galoy brings synthetic USD to Bitcoin
  • Stablesats is able to offer a stable dollar balance backed by bitcoin through inverse perpetual swaps.

Mining

• Foundry makes BTC donation to open source Stratum V2 protocol developer to improve Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mining layer

Optional Topics

• Bitcoin Infinity Day on 8/21
• Bitcoin Policy Institute’s response to the US Treasury’s request for comment on responsible digital asset development
• Beautyon’s thoughts on the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act
• Bitmain/Antpool & Antalpha partner to finance loans for Bitcoin miner equipment and resource costs
• Widespread malware attack on Github (> 35k repositories affected)
• Block releases blog post about their approach to multisig key management
• Lyn Alden’s “A Look At the Lightning Network”
• LATAM’s largest investment bank BTG Pactual launches Bitcoin/crypto exchange
• Tropic Square launches open source chip prototype for Bitcoin hardware
• “Log in with ZBD” product for authenticated identity across Lightning-enabled applications
• Hosted Voltage nodes get effortless inbound channel liquidity