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Dec 2021
1h 59m

Rabbit Hole Recap #176: Party rip

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
About this episode

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Swan adds taproot support and api, no longer supporting ny

- Major swiss tech company ceo runs surveillance operation

- Malicious actor appears to be attacking Tor

- Sparrow Wallet v1.5.3

- Mercury Wallet v0.4.62

- btc-rpc-explorer v3.3.0

- Zap android v0.5.4-beta

- Lightning Terminal v0.6.1-alpha

- Lightning Pool v0.5.3-alpha

- Elements v0.21.0.1

- Private home mining using a VPN guide

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