Intro
Silk Road Crypto Sale: US Govt Sells 9,800 BTC, Aims to Offload 41,500 More (https://u.today/silk-road-crypto-sale-us-govt-sells-9800-btc-aims-to-offload-41500-more)
News
CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/us-regulator-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-and-boss-changpeng-zhao), the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to U.S. customers while pretending to bar them from the platform
China may also be going after (https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/us-and-china-try-to-crush-binance-sbfs-40m-bribe-claim-asia-express/) Binance due to the bans on cryptocurrency trading on the mainland
Some more schadenfreude (https://amycastor.com/2023/03/30/crypto-collapse-new-sam-bankman-fried-charge-binance-fallout-sec-sues-exchange-over-crypto-securities-how-signature-died/) from crypto skeptic Amy Castor
Economics and Banking
A history of the US-Saudia debt recycling deal (https://archive.is/vAsyB) from Bloomberg, a financial news company
Saudi Arabia reduces 36.7% of its holdings of US treasury securities in two years (https://www.zawya.com/en/wealth/wealth-management/saudi-arabia-reduces-367-of-its-holdings-of-us-treasury-securities-in-two-years-utu3efvn)
Learn more by reading a history of modern energy politics and money (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disorder-9780198864981?cc=us&lang=en&) by Helen Thompson
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #244 covers multiparty channels (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/29/) and channel factories (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/channel-factories/)
Feedback
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Silk Road Crypto Sale: US Govt Sells 9,800 BTC, Aims to Offload 41,500 More (https://u.today/silk-road-crypto-sale-us-govt-sells-9800-btc-aims-to-offload-41500-more)
News
CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/us-regulator-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-and-boss-changpeng-zhao), the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to U.S. customers while pretending to bar them from the platform
China may also be going after (https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/us-and-china-try-to-crush-binance-sbfs-40m-bribe-claim-asia-express/) Binance due to the bans on cryptocurrency trading on the mainland
Some more schadenfreude (https://amycastor.com/2023/03/30/crypto-collapse-new-sam-bankman-fried-charge-binance-fallout-sec-sues-exchange-over-crypto-securities-how-signature-died/) from crypto skeptic Amy Castor
Economics and Banking
A history of the US-Saudia debt recycling deal (https://archive.is/vAsyB) from Bloomberg, a financial news company
Saudi Arabia reduces 36.7% of its holdings of US treasury securities in two years (https://www.zawya.com/en/wealth/wealth-management/saudi-arabia-reduces-367-of-its-holdings-of-us-treasury-securities-in-two-years-utu3efvn)
Learn more by reading a history of modern energy politics and money (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disorder-9780198864981?cc=us&lang=en&) by Helen Thompson
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #244 covers multiparty channels (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/29/) and channel factories (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/channel-factories/)
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/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), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/)
Boosts
Petar sent in the largest boost in the show's history at 222,222 sats!
defnotskynet sugests looking at lifecycle emissions studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources) to understand the methodology of grading energy sources by emission
Meremortals wanted to learn more about bitcoin energy usage calculations, so check out the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons)
Thank you Boosters
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Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/)
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Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android)
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
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