This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- DC accuses saylor and microstrategy of tax fraud https://twitter.com/AGKarlRacine/status/1565031380471382019
- mining difficulty increases by 9.25% https://mempool.space/lightning
- mempool launches lightning explorer https://mempool.space/lightning
- nydig launches lightning accelerator https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/nydig-announces-lightning-accelerator-project
- Iran approves bitcoin for imports https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/iran-greenlights-bitcoin-crypto-payments-for-imports
- joinmarket v0.9.7 https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.9.7
- lnd v0.15.1-beta https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.15.1-beta
- btcd v0.23.1-beta https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/releases/tag/v0.23.1
- block hardware wallet update https://wallet.build/processing-our-processor-choice/
- TBD on self sovereign identity https://developer.tbd.website/blog/ssi-tbd-web5/
- second largest data leak in history, 800M chinese records exposed https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/30/china-database-face-recognition/