Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- ethereum privacy tool tornado cash sanctioned
https://archive.ph/m7RUn

- tornado cash github repo taken down, same with dev accounts
https://nitter.net/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059

- coincenter on sanctions
https://www.coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-sanction-of-privacy-tools-places-sweeping-restrictions-on-all-americans/

- btc-e exchange operator extradited to US
https://darknetlive.com/post/btc-e-owner-extradited-to-united-states/

- proposal to require large hedge funds to disclose cryptocurrency positions
https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-weigh-asking-hedge-funds-to-report-crypto-exposure-11660140000

- blackrock launches bitcoin private trust
https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/bitcoin-private-trust

- tropic square open source secure chip begins production
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tropic-square-launches-open-source-chip-prototype-for-bitcoin-hardware

- easy inbound liquidity using voltage
https://voltage.cloud/blog/feature-updates/effortless-inbound-channel-opening-for-voltage-nodes/

- more details on Block's hardware wallet
https://wallet.build/losing-your-keys-without-losing-your-coins/

- motiv launches 16 circular economies in Peru
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/motiv-launches-16-bitcoin-economies-in-peru

- sms provider twilio compromised
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/twilio-breach-customer-data/

- email provider Klaviyo compromised, impacts customers of 44 bitcoin companies including swan
https://www.klaviyo.com/blog/august-2022-security-incident

- border wallets explained
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/border-wallets-help-users-memorize-bitcoin-seed-phrases

- fiatjaf on value4value
https://fiatjaf.com/8e10f738.html

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