Ask SN: What are some of the top bitcoin 2022 stories of the year?
692 sats \ 14 comments \ @ThrillerX_ 26 Dec 2022 bitcoin
Hey everyone, @ThrillerX_ here. Interested in finding out what stackers believe are the top stories of 2022? Now that it's been running for over a year, it be cool to see some SN links that stackers think went unnoticed but are highly relevant in top 2022 news items.
Also, there is a top/post category, in case anyone is wondering. https://stacker.news/top/posts?when=year is available here.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Dec 2022
The Great Purge of shitcoins.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 28 Dec 2022
🤣
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16 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTCNEWS_TODAY 26 Dec 2022
  • FTX fraud exposed
  • GBTC discount
  • China mining ban
  • Texas summer and winter grid stabilization with miners' help
  • Canada & NY state mining moratoriums
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 27 Dec 2022
Theses are great! Also Canada trucker donors with frozen bank accounts
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 27 Dec 2022
Yes
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Judge 27 Dec 2022
All time high hashrate during a bear market
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @demitasse 27 Dec 2022
coinjoins getting demixed and the flippening of bitcoin by monero on the darkweb
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ThrillerX_ OP 27 Dec 2022
really?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @demitasse 27 Dec 2022
Yes.
in february Laura Shin published an article about how she discovered who the dao hacker was because chainalysis can demix wasabi coinjoins. https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2022/02/22/exclusive-austrian-programmer-and-ex-crypto-ceo-likely-stole-11-billion-of-ether/?sh=7c70e18b7f58
Wasabi users have been caught up for at least 2 years by law enforcement prior to Laura going public: https://scribe.rip/wasabi-wallet-mixing-is-broken-566f3726ff45
Samourai's oxt research demonstrates how easy it is to demix wasabi:
Samourai already knows the xpubs of all users by design of whirlpool https://fullycrypto.com/samourai-and-wasabi-exchange-blows-over-de-anonymized-accusations
Samourai's binaries are also not reproducible from source: https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.samourai.wallet/
Joinmarket can also be demixed: https://research.oxt.me/the-cold-case-files/1/preview
you can read an article I wrote about all of this in august, but it is behind my LN paywall, so it will cost you 300 sats: https://narrativerry.xyz/blog/2022/08/27/hello-world/
Since hydra got busted because bitcoin can be demixed dark webs are going monero only, and it is snowballing. just look at dread or reddit darkweb forums. https://cryptogemtokens.com/monero-is-replacing-bitcoin-on-darkweb-heres-why/
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 27 Dec 2022
Apr 28 2022: Central African Republic becomes second country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 27 Dec 2022
😙
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6 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 26 Dec 2022
Top of mind newsy news stuff for me is FTX stuff, Lightspark, Lightning "tokens" gaining support, FED rate hikes, and Bitcoin accelerators coming online.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ThrillerX_ OP 27 Dec 2022
Has lightspark made a peep since the summer?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 27 Dec 2022
No, but top news seems different from ongoing news.
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