Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you - Jan 27 2022

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- new bill would allow US Treasury to prohibit any transaction without public notice or input https://www.coincenter.org/new-bill-would-hand-treasury-blank-check-to-ban-crypto-at-exchanges/

- robinhood starts rollout of bitcoin withdrawals https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/robinhood-starts-to-allow-bitcoin-withdrawals

- coldcard MK4 presales open https://store.coinkite.com/store/mk4

- bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all time high https://insights.braiins.com/en/#mining_economics

- Phoenix v1.4.20: https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases/tag/android-legacy-v1.4.20

- Bisq v1.8.2: https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.8.2

- Zap v0.7.6-beta: https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.7.6-beta

- Joininbox v0.6.6: https://github.com/openoms/joininbox/releases/tag/v0.6.6

- BTCPay Server v1.4.0: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.4.0

- nix-bitcoin v0.0.63: https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.0.63

- Sphinx Relay v2.2.5: https://github.com/stakwork/sphinx-relay/releases/tag/v2.2.5

- Lightning Terminal v0.6.2-alpha: https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal/releases/tag/v0.6.2-alpha

- satoshi energy raises 60 bitcoin with focus on bitcoin mining infrastructure https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/satoshi-energy-raises-2-million-to-power-bitcoin

- IRS begins requiring selfies for some services using third party company https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/irs-will-soon-require-a-selfie-to-access-some-of-its-online-tools.html

- puerto rico tax breaks for outsiders stirs outrage https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-19/tax-breaks-for-crypto-millionaires-stir-outrage-in-puerto-rico

- free four day passes to Bitcoin 2022 for contributors of 30 open source projects https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/support-these-open-source-bitcoin-projects