Episode 14: Bitcoin News - Bitcoin Conference 2022 Highlights & Announcements (Education, Mining, and Privacy Are Pumping!), and Other Global and Australian Bitcoin News

Thanks to our hosts: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16 Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au Notes & References Bitcoin 2022 Conference Highlights - too many to list! Just listen to the first 20 minutes! In sum: bitcoin mining, privacy, and institutional investment are all barrelling ahead. Samson Mow's announcements: 1. Prospera, jurisdiction on the Roatán island off of the northern coast of Honduras, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender 2. Madeira, an autonomous region in Portugal, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender 3. Mexico is proposing a bill for legal tender https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/04/07/two-new-territories-are-adopting-bitcoin/ Jack Mallers' Strike partners with Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/07/jack-mallers-strike-announces-shopify-integration-for-bitcoin-lightning-payments/ Tesla, Block, and Blockstream to setup 100% solar-powered bitcoin mine in Texas https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/tesla-block-blockstream-to-mine-bitcoin-off-solar-power-in-texas.html Australian News OTR accepting bitcoin payments starting in July (through Crypto.com system) https://twitter.com/HardBlockBTC/status/1510789927944200192 RBA to audit 10% of their 80 tonnes of gold in Bank of England https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-golden-audit-rba-to-check-on-its-6-billion-in-bullion-20220406-p5abf3.html Bengal Energy, a Canadian oil and gas business, is dabbling in Bitcoin (BTC) mining as a way to tap into the untapped energy from its gas wells in the Australian outback https://news.coincu.com/77167-bengal-energy-plans-mine-bitcoin-australias/ DazBea1 and others release the Looking Glass Financial Education platform https://lookingglasseducation.com/ Global News EU Parliament passes privacy-busting crypto rules despite industry criticism https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/31/eu-parliament-votes-on-privacy-busting-crypto-rules-industry-rails-against-proposals/ “Beware of wartime fake news triggering a run”, EU banks told https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/beware-wartime-fake-news-triggering-run-eu-banks-told-2022-04-01/ Greenpeace paid $5 million by Chris Larson (co-founder of XRP/Ripple) to campaign for bitcoin to change from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bitcoiners-scoff-at-chris-larsens-dollar5m-campaign-to-force-a-btc-code-change/ar-AAVD5I5 Trezor customer email address list compromised via Mailchimp https://nitter.net/Trezor/status/1510558771944333312 Tennessee Titans becomes first NFL team to adopt a bitcoin standard https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tennessee-titans-become-first-nfl-team-to-accept-bitcoin Technology Bitcoin Bounty Website https://bitcoinbounties.org/ Econoalchemist's article on how Whirlpool mixing fixes the Canadian trucker protest problem https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/freedom-convoy-should-whirlpool-bitcoin Mining stats/insights added to mempool.space https://mempool.space/mining Intel launches their new bitcoin mining chip https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/intel-launches-new-bitcoin-mining-chip-blockscale Taro on Taproot enables issuance of stablecoins and shitcoins on bitcoin https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/05/lightning-labs-raises-70m-to-bring-stablecoins-to-bitcoin/