0. BIP8 or BIP9 or modern soft fork activation: How Bitcoin could upgrade next
Aaron van Wirdum (July 20, 2020)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bip-8-bip-9-or-modern-soft-fork-activation-how-bitcoin-could-upgrade-next
1. No banking for democrats
Hong Kong’s national security law: A first look
Donald Clarke (June 30, 2020)
https://thechinacollection.org/hong-kongs-national-security-law-first-look/
Global banks ‘scrutinise Hong Kong clients for pro-democracy links’
Straits Times (July 21, 2020)
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/global-banks-scrutinise-hong-kong-clients-for-pro-democracy-links
HSBC, Standard Chartered, publicly support China’s national security law for Hong Kong
Sherisse Pham, Pamela Boykoff, and Chris Liakos (June 4, 2020)
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/business/hsbc-standard-chartered-hong-kong-law-intl-hnk/index.html
2. Twitter hacked
Dissecting the Twitter hack with a cybersecurity evangelist
Louis Columbus (July 18, 2020)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2020/07/18/dissecting-the-twitter-hack-with-a-cybersecurity-evangelist/#5441107047df
Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic twitter hack?
Krebs on security (July 16, 2020)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
Hacker convinced Twitter employee to help them hijack accounts
Joseph Cox (July 15, 2020)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos
3. Iets online kopen met een cadeaubon van meer dan 50 euro? Dat kan niet meer
NOS (July 20, 2020)
https://www.nporadio1.nl/binnenland/25269-iets-online-kopen-met-een-cadeaubon-van-meer-dan-50-euro-dat-kan-niet-meer
4. De Depositobank mag er niet komen, we stoppen
Stichting Full Reserve (July 19, 2020)
https://mailchi.mp/d1cdf8ef811e/dijsselbloem-beindigt-debat-over-inrichting-nederlandse-geldstelsel-4127706?e=7d39a03cee
5. The IRS cryptocurrency letter
IRS violated taxpayer Bill of Rights
Danny Nelson (July 14, 2020)
https://www.coindesk.com/irs-crypto-letter
Reporting virtual currency transactions
Treasury/IRS (July 16, 2019)
https://www.irs.gov/pub/notices/letter_6173.pdf
6. The Dark Side of Money: Korte Film
https://youtu.be/PuP9bvWkuco