Episode 71: Dimon Handz

Episode 71: Dimon Handz

Bitcoin Dad Pod

BDP 71
Pre-Show
Coin CEO Bob Lee was stabbed to death (https://protos.com/mobilecoin-exec-bob-lee-stabbed-to-death-in-san-francisco-attack/) in San Francisco
News
The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down (https://paxful.com/sign-up-transition) and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures
2016 bitcoin talk forums were already suspicious (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1621766.0) of paxful
Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved with OPNX, an exchange to trade the bankrupt claims the two scammers created (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/04/opnx-exchange-which-offers-ftx-claims-trading-led-by-three-arrows-founders-is-now-live/)
Economics and Banking
The U.S. Federal Reserve never talks about eurodollars, but a former FED trader gives a very FED-ish take (https://fedguy.com/ameridollars/) on eurodollars in a period of bank deposit risk
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan a GSIB investment bank, summarizes the problem of balancy sheet capacity (https://archive.is/NGhlD) that led to the SVB bank failure
Energy
Texas Legislature votes to limit participation (https://archive.ph/dbtvd) in demand response schemes to less than 10% (https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1751/id/2730952) of all demand response capacity
Texan bill to create gold-backed digital currency (https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html) is slightly baffling
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #245 covers a new proposal for watchtower accountability (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/04/05/) on lightning
Neutrino is a bitcoin node (https://github.com/jtymoszczuk/neutrino-guide) that validates but does not store the entire history
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