This week Marty and Matt discuss:

• financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-announces-countries-to-discuss-bitcoin)

• Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid “stablecoin” crash (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/luna-foundation-sold-80000-bitcoin-amid-ust-crash)

• texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture (https://www.texaspacific.com/investors/news-events/press-releases/detail/131/texas-pacific-land-corporation-mawson-infrastructure-group)

• canaan revenues increased by [237%](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/19/mining-rig-maker-canaan-q1-revenue-more-than-triples/ - cambridge releases new mining data numbers https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/bitcoin-mining-new-data-reveal-a-surprising-resurgence/)

• cambridge numbers are flawed (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/dont-trust-bitcoin-mining-data-from-china)

• EU wants to scan all your private messages (https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam/)

• summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants (https://blog.summerofbitcoin.org/summer-of-bitcoin-2022/)

• bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina

• coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card (https://www.coincorner.com/TheBoltCard)

• Brink funds Michael Ford (https://brink.dev/blog/2022/05/13/michael-ford/)

• BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko’s grant (https://blog.bitmex.com/renewal-of-gleb-naumenkos-bitcoin-developer-grant-3/)

• a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers

• Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022 (https://bitcointv.com/w/p/3rrKYjtmEgZq675iijHHnw?playlistPosition=2)

• bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5 (https://github.com/BitcoinQnA/seedtool/releases/tag/1.0.5)

• sparrow wallet v1.6.4

• gloria zhao releases package relay proposal (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-May/020493.html)

• pieter wuille on private authentication protocols (https://github.com/sipa/writeups/tree/main/private-authentication-protocols)

• new stablecoin backed by coldcards

• this month in bitcoin privacy (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/April_2022/)

• fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions

• adopting bitcoin 2022 announced (https://medium.com/@AdoptingBTC/back-to-bitcoin-country-announcing-adopting-bitcoin-2022-94edb49ee54a)

• mccormack releases film about el salvador

• how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-to-upgrade-bitcoin

• Former lead of Facebook’s shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com

• SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/

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