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The US government shook up the crypto world when it was announced the Samourai Wallet devs were arrested and the domain seized. This opened up a ton of questions around regulation clarity, non-custodial tools, what is and isn't a money transmitter, and a bunch more topics.

I brought on Orlando Cosme to help dissect and understand what's going on in this situation and how the government is viewing these things.

Follow Orlando on Twitter: @Orlando_btc
Check out OC Advisory for legal help: https://www.ocadvisory.co/

This week we are back and talk about:
- The hysteria around miners reorging the halving block and what actually happened
- How did the Runes launch go and what happens next?
- The Samourai Wallet situation and privacy
- New data on miner centralization in Bitcoin

As always, go follow us on Twitter:
Charlie: @cbsspears
Bob: @bobbodily
Donny: @itsdonnyok
Jake: @Jakeblockchain

All previous episodes at https://www.builtonbitcoin.xyz/

Could Solana be a solid Bitcoin L2? Is there value in making it effortless to swap between BTC and Solana assets?
The co-founders of Atomiq think so and have created an excellent product to eaisly swap between these assets with minimal risk.
Sylvie Durach and Adam Borcany of the co-founders of Atomiq. An atomic swap protocol that let's you swap assets from different chains with a dead simple interface.

Check out Atomiq: https://app.atomiq.exchange/
Follow Sylvie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sylvie0301
Follow Adam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamBorco

In this Bitcoin Weekly Kickback. Jake, Charlie, Donny, and Bob are joined by Matt Luongo to delve into:
- The role of nodes versus miners in controlling Bitcoin.
- The importance of fee revenue and NgU for different network users.
- Designing Layer 2 incentives that align with Layer 1 priorities.
- The Game Theory of UNCOMMON GOODS (The first Rune)

Follow these cats on Twitter: @itsdonnyok, @bobbodily, @cbspears, @jakeblockchain, @mhluongo

Ordinals have been huge for Bitcoin since launching early 2023. There is $100's of millions in value locked in these digital artifacts.
Liquidium allows users to borrow BTC using their Ordinal as collateral and lenders can earn a BTC yield lending to borrowers.

Robin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Liquidium.

Follow Robin on Twitter: @robin_liquidium
Take a loan on Liquidium: https://www.liquidium.fi/

Another weekly chat of the latest in Bitcoin land. We have two special guests drop in this week. Philip from Arkadiko and Ian from Joltz Rewards, as well as the usual suspects Bob and Jacob.

We Discuss:
- Marathon Pools latest fee revenue coming way above average
- Lighting + Coinbase
- Custodial Lightning
- Is DeFi a worthwhile goal?
- Is BitVM safe?

Follow these gents on Twitter:
@BobBodily, @ian__major, @philiphacks and @jakeblockchain.