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Biden Admin Plans For Energy Bill Relief

At the beginning of a natural gas energy crisis, the Biden admin plans to issue $4.5 billion for low-income households, CNBC reports. This is to provide payments for their high energy bills. Another $9 billion will go to low-income households to help with energy-efficient home upgrades.

Lightning Network Bug

There was an exploit to LND yesterday, shutting down almost half of the entire lightning network, down for almost half a day. Lighting Labs promptly sent out a fix. Tony covers this more here.

Kevin Loaec 🧙‍♂️🐟 @KLoaec

A quick thread on the LND drama, because there is quite a lot to cover. First of all, I don't even run a LN node because I consider the LN state of the art to be weak security. So I'm not taking sides with LND or anything here. So, someone sent a transaction to break things. 1/n

1:49 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022

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Bitcoin Whitepaper Anniversary

The Bitcoin Whitepaper Anniversary was on Oct 31st, this past Monday. Coincidentally or intentionally, it was released on the same day Martin Luther started The Reformation, the separation of church and state. Rizzo talks interesting facts on the whitepaper here.

Iris Close To Default

News this morning from Global Wire stated that Iris could pay for less than 50% of its loan for its miners with their revenue.

Dylan LeClair 🟠 @DylanLeClair_

Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy is close to default on $103m of loans made to special purpose vehicles by NYDIG. The loans, which are secured by ASIC miners, have monthly principal and interest payment obligations or $7m/month while the miners generate $2m in monthly profit.

1:49 PM ∙ Nov 2, 2022

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Deribit Hacked for $28 Million Halting Trades

Deribit’s hot wallet was hacked this morning. They have halted all trading and fund transfers. According to Twitter, Deribit keeps 99% of customer funds locked in cold storage.

Deribit @DeribitExchange

Deribit hot wallet compromised, but client funds are safe and loss is covered by company reserves Our hot wallet was hacked for USD 28m earlier this evening just before midnight UTC on 1 November 2022.

7:03 AM ∙ Nov 2, 2022

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Price

Bitcoin Continues on its journey sideways, falling from the weekly high of almost $21k.

Historically, Bitcoin has made unprecedented moves while in an environment of low volatility and sideways price action. This could either be up or down, but according to past events, Bitcoin will move soon.

Some historical charts show us bottoming here, but a bigger macro recession may push us lower. Only time will tell.

Tweets

Bukele Calls Out the FED

Samson Mow @Excellion

“The Federal Reserve is nothing federal and has no reserves. They rob you from your wealth and from your savings and that’s immoral. It’s not only immoral but it also destroys some basic economic principles like saving.” - @nayibbukele #Bitcoin fixes this. https://t.co/bCAdlmpZ5D

1:57 AM ∙ Nov 1, 2022

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Lightning May Solve Bot Problem

Jack Mallers @jackmallers

@elonmusk Lightning (instant + near-free #bitcoin payments) should be an accepted payment method. Would allow for global, inclusive, private payments (important for pseudonymous users) that are cash-final (no chargebacks). Services like @CashApp already support these payments

12:42 PM ∙ Nov 2, 2022

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Bitcoin Payments In Africa

Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine

Kids in South Africa using #bitcoin to purchase groceries 🇿🇦 The future is bright! 🙌

6:14 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022

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Bitcoin Light Show

Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine

#Bitcoin light show above the City of Lugano, Switzerland🇨🇭

10:06 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022

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3 Out Of 32 Halvings

Relai 🇪🇺 @relai_app

#Bitcoin has 32 halvings We've only seen 3. You're an early adopter.

6:34 PM ∙ Oct 31, 2022

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