Episode 18: Cynically Saving the Children

Episode 18: Cynically Saving the Children

Bitcoin Dad Pod

News
Sweet infographic shows who funds (https://whofundsbitcoin.com/) bitcoin development
Tokenomics
The Problem of Etherium (https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/the-problem-with-ethereum-af9692f4af95) explains the changing promises of Etherium in the context of a society with class structure
Ties in nicely with Vitalik's latest cry for help (https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1526378787855736832)
How sweet (and brief) it is to be a top 10 coin (https://twitter.com/ChartsBtc/status/1527785631643865088)
Energy
New CCAF report on bitcoin mining (https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/bitcoin-mining-new-data-reveal-a-surprising-resurgence/) has some surprising(?) opinions
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index Change Log (https://ccaf.io/cbeci/change_log)
Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave Isn’t a Good Sign | The Drive (https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-asks-texan-owners-to-limit-charging-due-to-heat-wave)
Privacy
This Month in Bitcoin Privacy (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/April_2022/) is back!
Powerfull edition, great discussion of financial surveillance
Details CBDC incentives are completely anti-privacy
Start your own local trading group (https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/03/14/how-to-create-your-own-crypto-trading-group/)
EU plans to 'save the children' by abolishing online privacy (https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam/)
Seattle Bitcoin (Seattle, WA) | Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/seabtc)
Bitcoin Education
200th edition of bitcoin optech is out! (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/05/18/)
OP_CAT could enable recursive bitcoin covenants - protocol work is really hard!
Rusty Russell proposed an OPTX opcode to replace Jeremey Rubin's OPCTV. His proposal is more extensible and has all of the benefits of OP_CTV
Corrections
Gary Gensler: crypto exchanges trading against (https://news.yahoo.com/sec-chair-gary-gensler-takes-184814025.html) their customers, also, water still wet -> this was a broad characterization is probably wrong for some exchanges like Kraken
PSA - Umbrel is insecure (https://hideme.software/)
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Some tips on running a full node:
Lopp's guide to bitcoin and tor (https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-run-bitcoin-as-a-tor-hidden-service-on-ubuntu/) setup
K3tan's excellent ubuntu nodebox guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx_mLXISrfM)
A docker node option I haven't tried (https://ezno.de/)
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/)
The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app
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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