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Dec 2021
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Rabbit Hole Recap #175: Don't live in fe...

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
About this episode

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- square changes name to block

- square crypto changes name to spiral

- ledger adds support for psbts, multisig, and taproot

- microstrategy buys 7002 bitcoin

- silent link adds support for US burner phone number esims

- lnd v0.14.1-beta

- mercury wallet v0.4.56

- joinmarket v0.9.4

- bluewallet v6.2.13

- specter desktop v1.7.2

- umbrel v0.4.9

- passport v1.0.8-beta

- hexa wallet v2.0.5

- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.22

- immortan v0.5.7

- bitcoin dev kit v0.14.0

- nix-bitcoin v0.0.59

- joininbox v0.6.4

- nodlito formally announced

- this month in bitcoin privacy

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