FTX Debtors Seek Injunction to Unlock $9B in Value for Grayscale Trusts

FTX Bankruptcy and Grayscale Lawsuit • Alameda Research Ltd. is suing Grayscale Investments, LLC, its CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, and its owners, Digital Currency Group and Barry Silbert for allegedly extracting more than $1.3 billion in management fees while preventing shareholders from redeeming their shares. • FTX Debtors are seeking injunctive relief to unlock $9 billion …

CoinJoin Your Bitcoin Payments with BTCPay Server Plugin

BTCPay Server has added a CoinJoin plugin, allowing merchants to retain privacy while managing their stores. The plugin includes a payment batching in CoinJoin feature, coin selection interface and arbitrary amount CoinJoins. Merchants can choose to CoinJoin for a fee with a coordinator provided by zkSNACKs or run their own coordinator. BTCPay Server Adds CoinJoin …

Take Control of Your Finances: The Time to Embrace Bitcoin is Now

• Banks are gatekeeping customers from buying bitcoin. • Jamie Dimon’s comments sparked a policy that prevents Chase customers from buying Bitcoin on Cash App. • It is time to take proactive steps towards permissionless, non-KYC Bitcoining. Banks Are Gatekeeping Money Just in case we needed a reminder, banks are showing us that they can …

Grow Abundance in Your Urban Home: Urban Farming with Erin

• Erin started homesteading by accident after finding a Craigslist ad with no pictures and two sentences saying she will give cheap rent if the tenants feed the chickens. • It turned out that the person who posted the ad was Novella Carpenter, an urban homesteader who wrote a book called “Farm City” in 2009. …

Luxor Launches First Ever ASIC RFQ Platform: Maximizing Market Transparency

• Luxor Technologies has launched the first request-for-quote (RFQ) platform for buying and selling Bitcoin mining hardware. • This system will create a more liquid, easy to use marketplace for ASICs, while improving market transparency and access. • The platform will offer major flexibility to buyers and sellers, allowing them to specify orders by quantity, …

Arizona Sen. Proposes Making Bitcoin Legal Tender

• Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers has proposed a set of bills to make bitcoin legal tender and allow for its acceptance by state agencies. • The bills define bitcoin as a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency, and would let individuals and businesses use it to pay debts, taxes, fees, charges and other financial obligations. • …

New Symbol for Sats Proposed, Receives Overwhelmingly Positive Response

• Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin educator, has proposed a new symbol for sats: a reverse “S” combined with a vertical line. • The symbol references the 21 million Bitcoin hard supply cap, and is a horizontally-reversed dollar sign, representing the anti-dollar. • There has been a very quick and overwhelmingly positive response to the …

MicroStrategy to Give Enterprises Bitcoin & Lightning Tooling in 2023

• MicroStrategy is planning to release Bitcoin Lightning Network-powered software applications and solutions in 2023. • The company is exploring ways to provide enterprises with tooling for the Bitcoin and Lightning ecosystem, including online content monetization, enterprise marketing, web paywalls, and internal corporate controls. • MicroStrategy’s upcoming Bitcoin event will feature a “Lightning for corporations” …

Bitcoin For Fairness: Bringing Financial Sovereignty to the Global South

• Anita Posch, founder of Bitcoin For Fairness, travels to Zimbabwe to observe the need for Bitcoin in the Global South. • She found a nation in distress due to a kleptocratic ruling elite that had been inflating the national currency for decades. • Bitcoin For Fairness was founded to bring Bitcoin knowledge to the …