Draft of BIP47 v3 - Reusable Payment Codes for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets

BIP47 v3 attempts to solve two main issues with v2:
- Key reuse will occur if the same payment code is used to receive transactions on more than one blockchain.
- Version 1 and version 2 notification transactions both require the use of an OP_RETURN output.

https://github.com/justusranvier/obpp-rfc/blob/bip47/obpp-05.mediawiki

MicroStrategy announces new proposed private offering of $600 million of convertible senior notes and intends to use the proceeds to buy more bitcoin

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/press/microstrategy-announces-proposed-private-offering-of-600m-of-convertible-senior-notes
archive: https://archive.vn/PGk2u

Wasabi Wallet v1.1.12.4 released

- This silent release contains an updated Tor client that has the fix for the DDoS vulnerability. Users who encountered Tor connection problems should update their Wasabi.

https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v1.1.12.4

Today, Shenzhen, China-based sports lottery site 500.com announced the acquisition of major Bitcoin mining pool BTC.com from Blockchain Alliance Technologies Holding Company via a share-swap agreement. Blockchain Alliance is operated by BitDeer, which itself is chaired by Jihan Wu, the co-founder of bitcoin mining giant Bitmain.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/sports-gambling-website-500-com-acquires-bitcoin-mining-pool-btc-com
archive: https://archive.vn/0wNzO

If You Are Not Long Bitcoin, You Are Short Bitcoin w/ Anthony Scaramucci - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

> This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Bitcoin Magazine advisor, Matt Odell sits down with Anthony Scaramucci the cofounder of Skybridge Capital to discuss his Bitcoin Fund and his thoughts on Bitcoin.

https://youtu.be/7ixf18RdiOw

Bitcoin Optech #136

- a new constant-time algorithm for generating/verifying transaction signatures
- proposal to stop processing unsolicited txs
- proposed BIP for setting up multisig wallets
- managing escrows over LN
- bidirectional upfront LN fees
- new protocol for mitigating the risk of malicious hardware wallets
- updated clients and services

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/02/17/
archive: https://archive.vn/fSLY2

Bitcoin highlighted on the frontpage of the Wall Street Journal

Expected timeline for Taproot activation has been released

- 2021 March 17-31: Full node software released with Taproot activation deployment.
- 2021 July 23: Economic majority has upgraded. Miner signalling begins to indicate preparedness to protect the economic minority who haven’t upgraded yet.
- 2 weeks after 90% of hashrate signals: Taproot activates. Economic majority enforces, while miners protect the economic minority until they upgrade as well.
- 2022 August 1: Entire economy has upgraded.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Taproot_activation_proposal_202102
archive: https://archive.vn/9ngeR

Citadel Dispatch e0.0.9 - Bitcoin Transactions, Mempools, and Self Hosting with wiz and softsimon_

EPISODE: 0.0.9
BLOCK: 670895
PRICE: 2055 sats per dollar
TOPICS: Transaction Fees, Mempools, and Self Hosting

Russia’s State Duma, the country’s lower house of government, has approved new legislation for the taxation of bitcoin in its first reading, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.

- bitcoin users would be required to declare receipts of cryptocurrency exceeding 600,000 rubles ($8,184) per year.

https://www.coindesk.com/russia-lower-house-approves-crypto-taxation-bill-in-first-reading
archive: https://archive.vn/MGCXi

Stephan Livera Podcast - SLP252 NVK Bitcoin Hardware Wallets vs Air Gapped Computers

> NVK, CEO of CoinKite joins me on the show to talk about hardware wallets, air gapped computers and all kinds of useful security questions.

https://anchor.fm/stephan-livera/episodes/SLP252-NVK-Bitcoin-Hardware-Wallets-vs-Air-Gapped-Computers-eqhejj

BitPay agreed to remit $507,375 to settle its potential civil liability for 2,102 apparent violations of multiple sanctions programs.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20210218
archive: https://archive.vn/VmcJy

Teleport Transactions: A CoinSwap implementation for Bitcoin

> The software could be standalone as a kind of bitcoin mixing app, but it could also be a library that existing wallets can implement allowing their users to send Bitcoin transactions with much greater privacy.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-February/018426.html
archive: https://archive.vn/T7wY2

Arthur Hayes: Walkaway

> Withdraw all your money from your broker. Stop trading. Stop paying the system that you believe treats you like a second-class citizen. That is opting out, and it is extremely powerful and liberating.

https://blog.bitmex.com/walkaway/
archive: https://archive.vn/4MiAz

MicroStrategy Completes $1.05 Billion Offering of Convertible Notes at 0% Coupon and 50% Conversion Premium

> MicroStrategy intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to acquire additional bitcoin.

https://www.microstrategy.com/en//investor-relations/press/microstrategy-completes-1-05b-offering-of-convertible-senior-notes_02-19-2021
archive: https://archive.vn/fVaod

Tales from the Crypt Podcast - Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15

- Bitcoin week in review

https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/Rabbit-Hole-Recap-Bitcoin-Week-of-2021-02-15-eqjo2t

High-end bitcoin brokerage River Financial raised $17.3 million in a recent equity sale, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-brokerage-river-financial-funding-round
archive: https://archive.vn/xaoBm

Specter v1.2.0 released

- Un/Freeze UTXO option Snowflake
- Coin selection from UTXO tab
- Use Bitcoin Core 0.21 native descriptor wallets
- Show wallets that failed to load
- Support BitBox02 Pairing

https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.0