Episode 43: TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc

Episode 43: TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Intro
Edward Chancellor Devil Take the Hindmost (https://www.edwardchancellor.com/)
Mercea Popeski's best quotes (https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1409128764903206912) courtesy of Pete Rizzo
And his "former lover's" blog (https://t.co/KIflJGCVYb)
News
Swan aquires the company (https://archive.ph/vKD8k) behind Specter wallet (https://archive.ph/M2MWL)
Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev still being held 7 weeks without charge (https://www.theblock.co/post/174016/arrested-tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-appeal-rejected) and Dutch authorities are selling his car?
When Taproot? (https://whentaproot.org/) tracks taproot integration in projects and provides education to developers, bitcoin upgrades can take time to become widespread (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/segwit-adoption/)
Economics
A modern look at the Trinity Study (https://web.archive.org/web/20110806210437/http://www.aaii.com/journal/article/retirement-savings-choosing-a-withdrawal-rate-that-is-sustainable?utm_source=sitesearch&utm_medium=click) and what it says about human's search for monetary stability (https://web.archive.org/web/20110708072619/http://wpfau.blogspot.com/2010/10/trinity-study-retirement-withdrawal.html)
The Trinity Study tried to debunk a 10% withdrawl rate, not support a 4% rate
The Blues and the Greens (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics), one of Paul's favorite allegories
Some detail and texture of the early 20th century gold standard (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gqn4WWvvNM)
The Apple Card is worse than subprime (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/goldmans-gs-apple-card-business-has-a-surprising-subprime-problem.html), turns out making phones doesn't make you a good CC issuer?
A primer on bond investing (https://www.lynalden.com/bond-investing/) from Lyn Alden as a way to think about the
Privacy
ErgoBTC contributes to privacy guru Michael Bazzell's pro-privacy magazine (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unredacted-4/)
Speaking of Michael Bazzell, his guide on a DIY credit freeze (https://inteltechniques.com/freeze.html) is a must do for all people in the USA
Software Updates
Fountain podcast app now supports a queue (https://archive.ph/KbiNt) and carplay - Chris seemed to think that was important
Bitcoin Education
Lopp on encrypted cloud backups (https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-securely-back-up-data-to-cloud-storage/)
ZeroSync - an instant blockchain syncronization proof (https://github.com/lucidLuckylee/zerosync/tree/main/docs) might allow nodes to instantly sync to the bitcoin mainchain
Uses bitcoin's assumeValid (https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/03/08/release-0.14.0/#assumed-valid-blocks) flag and implements utreexo (https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo)
In Bitcoin Optech #219 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/28/) Anthony Towns describes a bitcoin fork for testing soft fork proposals on Signet, useful for Drivechains?
Paul discusses alternative drivechain activation methods (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/21/)
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started)
Boosts
Lopp's bitcoin resources (https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html) for learning about all aspects of bitcoin
Paul's drive chain (https://www.drivechain.info/) resources
Run a drive chain here (https://www.drivechain.info/releases/index.html)
Corrections
None today!
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/)
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

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