Rabbit Hole Recap #195: The nation state bankruptcy wave is upon us

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Official US inflation number hits 8.5%, 40 year high https://www.axios.com/inflation-surges-march-6edc4545-094c-44c0-a14c-7f3dc77550f3.html

- Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy https://www.treasury.gov.lk/api/file/54a19fda-b219-4dd4-91a7-b3e74b9cd683

- Eth Dev sentenced to over 5 years in jail for sanctions violation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/crypto-expert-gets-63-months-for-violating-north-korea-sanctions

- Strike to bring lightning to merchants https://bitcoinmagazine.com/industry-events/jack-mallers-adding-bitcoin-to-major-pos-networks

- Robinhood enables withdrawals and adds lightning support https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/robinhood-will-enable-bitcoin-withdrawals

- Bitpay adds lightning support https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitpay-to-support-lightning-network

- Janet Yellen explains bitcoin https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706

- CNBC on bitcoin helping refugees with cross border payments https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/watch-as-we-send-bitcoin-from-miami-to-a-ukrainian-in-poland-.html

- New bitcoin seed tool https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/watch-as-we-send-bitcoin-from-miami-to-a-ukrainian-in-poland-.html

- New Zoltan piece https://plus2.credit-suisse.com/shorturlpdf.html?v=51WR-8SW-V