RABBIT HOLE RECAP #371: MONEY PRINTER GOES BRRRR
51 minutes Posted Aug 23, 2025 at 12:00 am.
Introduction to Rabbit Hole Recap with Alex
Bitcoiners Gathering at SALT Conference and Hiking Adventures
Central Bankers and the Antiquated Technology of Closed Room Decisions
Discussion on Fed's Actions, Crypto Suits, and Bitcoin's Price
The Politicization of Base Money and the Fed's Abandonment of Inflation Target
Speculation on the Fed's 2% Target and Lowering Rates
Bitcoin-Focused View vs. Mainstream Media at the Fed Meeting
Plans for a TFTC Tent at Next Year's Fed Meeting
Real World Assets and the Possibility of a Bitcoin Flippening
Shocking Reality Check at Digital Assets Event
Frustrations and the Attack on Privacy Devs
Scaramucci's Bitcoin Section and the Importance of Bitcoin-Only Focus
HRF's Work on Privacy-Focused Technologies and the Attack on Privacy Devs
Exciting Progress in User Privacy Options for Bitcoin
Future of Privacy and Bitcoin Payments: A Look at Spark and Lightning Network
Spark's Implementation of Tether Wallet and the Trade-off Balance
Bitcoin vs. Status Quo and tipping Fly Fishing Guy
Mutiny and the Idea of Spark and Arc for Smaller Amounts
Bootstrapping in Different Payment Pools and Interoperability via Lightning
Comparison to Broader Crypto and Interoperable Nature of Second Layer Solutions on Bitcoin
Importance of Building Privacy-Preserving Second-Layer Solutions
Splicing in and out of the Lightning Network and the BIS Proposal to Track UTXOs
BIS Bag and Tag UTXOs and a Grading System with Ordinals
BIS Aims to Control Bitcoin
HRF Moving Forward and Thinking about Payment Bitcoin
Living in Bitcoin and Defeating Schemes
Rabbit Hole Recap with Noster and Zapstream
Custodial Wallets and the Importance of Privacy
Multi Sig Federation Type of Model
No Such Thing as the Best Bitcoin Wallet
BitChat Update and Use Cases
Bitcoin's Evolution in Five-Year Increments and Future Developments
Different Protocols Carve Out Their Own Niches
Demoing BitChat to Brother
Cashu's Usefulness for Bitcoin Transfers in Mesh Networks
Critical Need for Privacy Tools in a World with Increasing Restrictions
Moving Towards More Permissioned Systems and Bullish Outlook on Building Tools
Obscura VPN Sponsorship and the Novel Hopping System
Shout Out to Obscura
Href AI, a Short Resource with Different Tools that People Can Use Today
eCash for Agentic World Payments
Stablecoins and Their Orthogonality to Bitcoin
Jerome Powell's Update and Replacing Swift
Painful Trajectory of the Country and Lessening the Pain
Crazy Unelected Group Makes the Rules and No Alternative Until Now
Why the Fed Does the Event in Jackson
Trump and Basant Successfully Bullied Powell to Sort of Ease Rates
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