Socratic Seminar 12
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
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
- 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
