Episode notes
Discount link: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/ozbitcoinpod
Host: https://twitter.com/danWilcz
Sponsored by HardBlock: https://www.hardblock.com.au
Global News
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud
- Tether Q3 Attestation Show Highest Percentage of Cash & Cash Equivalent Reserves Yielding Close to ~$1Bn
- Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch
- PayPal Subpoenaed by the SEC Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin
- Gemini UK to Block Bitcoin Transfers To and From Non-Approved Exchanges
- Fake Ledger Live App on Microsoft App Store Used to Steal 16.8+ BTC
- Roman Sterlingov's Defense To Examine Chainalysis Heuristics Under Protective Order, Trial Moved to February
- Swan Bitcoin to Limit Customers Interacting with Privacy Services Due to Partner Policy
- Coin Center's Tornado Cash OFAC Sanctions Lawsuit Dismissed Due to DAO Structure and TORN Shitcoin
- Armed Bitcoin Robberies Surge In Sweden Due to Open Data on Citizens
- Chat Control: EU Parliament Adopts Position Against Mass Surveillance
- Anarcho-Capitalist Javier Milei Wins Argentine Presidency
- Bittrex Global Is Shutting Down For Good
- SEC Sues Kraken For Operating Unregistered Securities Platform
- Report that F2Pool Is Likely Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions, followed by an admission of filtering with F2Pool Disabling Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now)
- CZ Pleads Guilty, Steps Down as CEO of Binance in $4.3 Billion Settlement with DOJ
- Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada
- Ministers accused of a cover up as it is revealed shadowy army unit DID spy on British critics of Covid lockdown policies
- Taproot Wizards raises $7.5MM & hires rot13maxi as CTO
- Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding, leveraging Stratum V2
Australian News
- Wallet of Satoshi to Stop Serving Customers in the United States
- Whistleblower alleges ANZ is deliberately pushing customers out of branches
- RBA lifted cash rate to 4.35pc in November
- Crypto hack suggests Australia’s CoinSpot has been compromised
- Australian regulators will compel businesses to report cyberattacks: Report
- Commbank iQ data shows younger Australians now even cutting back on essentials, as rents and mortgage costs rise
- Australia Updates Its Capital Gains Tax Guidance to Include Wrapped Tokens and DeFi
Technical News
- 85% of Whirlpool Users Are Using Self-Hosted Solutions
- Bitcoin-Dev Mailing List Is (Still) Looking for New Home
- Mutiny Wallet Makes Sending Hodl Zaps to Zeus Wallet An Optional Feature
- 83 BTC Transaction Fee Sets a New Record in Fiat Terms
- Apple Deactivates Zeus Developer Account Following Antitrust Lawsuit by Cash App & Venmo Users
- User lost 0.4 btc after only making a single dice roll when inputting user generated entropy for coldcard
- How to setup a Bitcoin Air-Gap Computer? Don't. - Website outlining air gap computer attacks and why to use a hardware wallet instead
- Atomicals marketplace disaster results in loss of funds due to use of SIGHASH_NONE
- Randstorm entropy vulnerability affects significant number of browser generated cryptocurrency wallets
- rot13maxi releases Sophon source to snipe BRC20 mints from the mempool
- FediMint changes consensus algorithm from HBBFT to AlephBFT