Citibank Executive Says Bitcoin Could Pass $300K by December 2021

> Fitzpatrick pointed to bitcoin’s weekly chart and used technical analysis (TA) of prior highs and lows to determine a target of $318,000 by December 2021.

https://www.coindesk.com/citibank-bitcoin-gold-318k-2021
archive: https://archive.vn/W71pj

Scaramucci's SkyBridge Capital opens door to investing in firms with bitcoin exposure

> The Company may seek exposure to digital assets (as defined herein) by investing in Investment Funds that provide exposure to digital assets. Investments by the Company and/or Investment Funds may also be made in companies providing technologies related to digital assets or other emerging technologies.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/84734/scaramucci-skybridge-filing-bitcoin
archive: https://archive.vn/aGiKi

> Irrespective of who comes out ahead in the vote tally, the results of the Electoral College or even who holds the high office of the presidency, the money supply in the United States will likely continue to increase.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/as-red-and-blue-debate-green-printer-and-orange-coin-always-win
archive: https://archive.vn/d7n8p

Poolin Launches Initiative To Activate Taproot, Encouraging Other Mining Pools To Join

> Poolin, the Chinese mining pool that currently controls around 13 percent of all hash power on the Bitcoin network, is preparing for Taproot, the proposed protocol upgrade for which the code is included in the upcoming Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 release. Bitcoin’s second-largest mining pool (only topped by F2Pool, which controls around 17 percent of hash power) today launched a webpage (taprootactivation.com) to help inform mining pools on Taproot, and lets them indicate how they would prefer the backwards compatible upgrade to be activated.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/poolin-launches-initiative-to-activate-taproot-encouraging-other-mining-pools-to-join
archive: https://archive.vn/pYlbP

Why FinCEN Wants Details on All Cross-Border Transactions Over $250

> Speaking Monday at the V20 Virtual Asset Service Providers Summit, Carole House, cyber and emerging tech policy specialist at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), said criminals are conducting cross-border payments using smaller amounts of cryptocurrency – hence FinCEN’s proposed lowering of the “Travel Rule” threshold.

https://www.coindesk.com/fincen-fatf-travel-rule-threshold-v20-summit
archive: https://archive.vn/Fm4d4

Early access to Proton Drive is here!

> we are pleased to announce the early access launch of Proton Drive, our new end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service.

https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-drive-early-access/
archive: https://archive.vn/t3GPj

Tails OS v4.13 released

- Tor Browser v10.0.5
- Thunderbird v78.4.2

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.13/

Whirlpool CLI v0.10.9 released

- optimize backend traffic with new Dojo endpoint /wallet
- enable dedicated thread for concurrent liquidity remixing

https://code.samourai.io/whirlpool/whirlpool-client-cli/-/releases/0.10.9

Dutch bitcoin exchange 'Bitonic' adds new bitcoin withdrawal address verification measures due to apparent pressure from Dutch regulators

https://bitonic.nl/en/news/213/additional-verification-measures-due-to-registration-application
archive: https://archive.vn/92wJT

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

> The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a "level" app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x
archive: https://archive.vn/92wJT

Bitcoin Magazine: AMA - Olaoluwa Osuntokun - Lightning Labs

> Join ck and Laolu, CTO of Lightning Labs, as they dive into the lightning tech stack, lightning pools, and the future of Bitcoin.

youtube: https://youtu.be/8B7Qq5Ry8lk?t=240

Mexico’s Second Richest Man Reveals 10% of His Liquid Assets Are in Bitcoin

> Pliego is the founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a collection of companies with stakes in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail stores

https://www.coindesk.com/mexican-billionaire-bitcoin-portfolio
archive: https://archive.vn/Fz3rP

Bitcoin Optech #124

- warning about backdoored VM images
- notable improvements to clients and services
- C-Lightning v0.9.2rc1
- changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2020/11/18/
archive: https://archive.vn/53GAc

OKEx Mining Pool Flatlines After 99.5% Hash Power Drop as Withdrawal Suspensions Spook Clients

> “Pool payouts are the lifeline of mining operations that don’t have large treasuries,” said Vera. “It’s no surprise that even the threat of that being cut off is enough for miners to jump ship to other mining pools.”

https://www.coindesk.com/okex-mining-pool-collapse-hash-power-withdrawal-suspension
archive: https://archive.vn/mdpWa

Leaked ‘Tai Chi’ Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme To Evade Bitcoin Regulators

> Binance Holdings Limited, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed to intentionally deceive regulators and surreptitiously profit from crypto investors in the United States, according to a document thought to be created by a senior executive

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/leaked-tai-chi-document-reveals-binances-elaborate-scheme-to-evade-bitcoin-regulators/
archive: https://archive.vn/gHwj0

Binance Sues Forbes for Defamation Over ‘Tai Chi’ Document Leak

> The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, claims Forbes and two writers, Michael del Castillo and Jason Brett, harmed Binance by publishing a story that “contains numerous false, misleading and defamatory statements.”

https://www.coindesk.com/binance-sues-forbes-for-defamation
archive: https://archive.vn/Y3uvu

OKEx official announcement: Reopening of withdrawals and other related updates

> Presently, one of OKEx’s private key holders has completed assisting the authorities in a previously referenced investigation. Throughout this investigation, OKEx was confirmed not to have been involved in any wrongdoing or illegal activities, and the private key holder has now returned to his normal business functions.

> OKEx will therefore reopen unrestricted withdrawals on or before Nov. 27, 2020. Prior to withdrawals reopening, our team will conduct strict security checks to resume normal operations of the hot wallet system and ensure the safety of our users’ funds. Because OKEx has insisted on maintaining 100% reserves since its establishment, 100% of user funds can be withdrawn without any restrictions after withdrawals are reopened.

https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360052758931-OKEx-Official-Announcement-Reopen-of-withdrawals-and-other-related-updates
archive: https://archive.vn/7ypZw

Electrum v4.0.5 released

- Fix: binary hanging on recently released macOS 11 Big Sur
- Fix: during LN channel opening, if the client crashed at the wrong moment, the channel might not get fully persisted to disk, and would need manual console-tinkering to recover
- Lightning now enabled by default. Electrum will not connect to the Lightning Network until the user opens a channel.
- Smarter node recommendation (to open channels with)

https://electrum.org/#download

Swan adds XPUB support for automatic withdrawals

> We encourage you to use a dedicated account for your Swan savings plan if your wallet supports it.

> A dedicated account will have its own child extended public key, meaning that anyone who has access to this key can only derive a subset of your wallet’s public keys.

> We do not store your extended public key. We only store a relatively short list of addresses that we derive from it — just enough to have a new address for every payout.

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/whats-in-an-xpub/
archive: https://archive.vn/9Vjup

ThunderHub v0.10.3 released

- Boltz reverse swaps: Move funds from off-chain to on-chain
- LnMarkets integration to login and see your balances

https://github.com/apotdevin/thunderhub/releases/tag/v0.10.3