RABBIT HOLE RECAP #415: AS IS TRADITION

RABBIT HOLE RECAP #415: AS IS TRADITION

June 25, 2026 · 58 min

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The episode discusses various topics including a firmware-update scam, banking issues in India, and updates from the Tor Project.

Coinkite Warns of Physical Letter Firmware-Update Scam https://blog.coinkite.com/paper-spam/ Camp Nakamoto https://x.com/campnakamoto/status/2069181607341170760 First StratumV2 Block Mined https://x.com/pavlenex/status/2070132430875267538 Law Enforcement and Catholic Groups Warn CLARITY Act Could Create Crypto Crime Loopholes https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/law-enforcement-catholic-group-clarity-act India | Frozen Account Leaves Savings Out of Reach In India, a man named Shiva spent years building a savings fund for his son’s wedding. The money came from small jobs and side work, carefully set aside in a separate bank account opened specifically for that purpose. But when the balance exceeded a certain threshold, the financial system automatically froze the account. Overnight, Shiva had been cut off from his own money. When the issue was escalated to the branch manager of his bank, they explained that the freeze was automatically imposed from the central bank’s IT system, and there was nothing they could do. To recover access, he was prompted to complete forms written in English, a language he could not easily navigate. Ultimately, the account was restored only after outside…

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Hosts: ODELL, Marty Bent

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Organizations: Coinkite, Camp Nakamoto, Law Enforcement, Catholic Groups, CLARITY Act, Tor Project

Products: Tor 0.4.8, Tor 0.4.9, JoinMarket-NG 0.33.0

Places: India

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