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Apr 2022
1h 48m

Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Rus...

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- TSMC Raises $3.5 Billion to build facility in Arizona

- Binance Accounts of Russians with over 10K Euros will be closed in 90 days

- Russian Mining Firm Bitriver hit with sanctions

- Compass Mining announces they were using Bitriver for russian hosting and all miners will be shut off and liquidated

- NY Man running Bitcoin ATMS charged with money laundering

- Bitcoin for Local Businesses

- Bitcoin Magazine Partners with Ukranian NBA Players for Humanitarian

Relief

- Flared-Gas Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Raises $350M

- CipherTrace Ransomware Report

- How Bitcoin Miners Were Airlifted From China to the US

- How Democracies Spy on their Citizens

- Yellen walking out of G20 meeting

- Food supply chain under attack

- FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting US agriculture sector

- Global energy crisis

- Thoughts on Ukraine, The Martyrmade Podcast

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