#Bitcoin has not required a single bullet to set its price, and will never require one to defend its value
Benjamin Chodroff
benjaminchodroff@benchodroff.com
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HSBC Labs
DeFi in TradFi
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Zug, Switzerland has joined the list of places I would enjoy living in. 
Respect the grind. Really proud of my son for practicing up to an hour each day on violin — only to nail his song in front of his teacher. You don’t need to become a professional violinist but you need to appreciate what it took for anyone to get there.
I didn’t spot any books on bitcoin in the Shanghai library, but excited to read Mastering the Lightning Network and some Rust web programming. I guess secondary layers aren’t banned… 
Upgraded CLN to 23.08rc2 - hope it fixes the gossip bug I’ve been hitting (so far… no luck…) 
Node Channels: offchain.social | 1ML - Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine - Bitcoin mainnet
Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine
Never stop believing 
KPMG issued a report talking about the positive ESG aspects of Bitcoin. https://advisory.kpmg.us/content/dam/advisory/en/pdfs/2023/bitcoins-role-esg-imperative.pdf
Gm from Guangzhou. Glad to see the US dollar has stabilized at 3450 sats, another large financial company has launched a stablecoin, 130 countries are investigating CBDC, and yet I still can’t custody Bitcoin at my bank. Maybe I am the only one, but I love a good challenge. 
Congratulations to OSL and HashKey 
Huge that Hong Kong retail investors can get in on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Cointelegraph
Hong Kong debuts retail crypto trading with HashKey and OSL
Hong Kong-based digital asset firm HashKey has obtained all necessary licensing to expand its business from serving professional investors to retai...
If you are a US citizen and looking for a good way to daily dollar cost average buy Bitcoin and withdraw automatically to cold storage or free lightning network access, I recommend River Financial exchange. Low fees, US regulated, and Bitcoin only.
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Looking forward to the next release of Core Lightning. Anyone know when it might ship? Eager to get a bug fixed to get my node gossiping again :)
Really excited to be able to withdraw Bitcoin to my core lightning node directly from Kraken with zero fee. I am easily amused.
Can’t wait to try doing it with River Financial now that I have a daily purchase set up with them. So far, so good.
I made my own bolt card using a nfc key fob and lnbits. 
I bought some NFC ntag424dna dongles to make some lightning wallet bolt cards in my LNbits instance. They come in a lovely Nostr purple shade. Hope it works. 
Back in Shanghai. Border control officer wants my phone number. For a surveillance state, you’d think they would know it already. Come on, China…
Made it from Boise to Los Angeles. Onwards towards Taipei 
Happy 800,000 blocks, Bitcoin 