Episode 36: Going Ad Hominem

Episode 36: Going Ad Hominem

Bitcoin Dad Pod

News
Even Politico has noticed that southern European countries will have a hard time staying in the Eurozone (https://www.politico.eu/article/mind-the-gap-southern-european-economies-have-diverged-spain-italy-portugal-greece/)
Craig Wright loses suit against Hodlnaut (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/timeline-of-hodlonaut-craig-wright-case), still costs $112,000 to Hodlnaut
Economics
The silent depression (https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2020/02/11/the-silent-depression-trundling-is-the-new-booming/) shows that personal experience of financial hardship m
Tokenomics
Long form pieces about Kyle Davies and Su Zu (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/three-arrows-capital-kyle-davies-su-zhu-crash.html) of 3ac
Nova Labs, aka Helium, is still aquiring startups (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/freedomfi_nova/) in a bid to remain relevant
No premine, but insiders take 35% cut every month (https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-helium-hnt-features-tokenomics-and-price-prediction)
Helium lies about business partnerships (https://decrypt.co/106420/helium-pledges-rigorous-process-after-salesforce-lime-deny-partnerships), a typical scam technique
Brian Armstrong claims he would shut down Coinbase ETH staking (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1560016827253551104) rather than comply with OFAC censorship
Top 4 ETH staking pools make up nearly 58% of staking (https://bmpro.substack.com/p/the-ethereum-merge-risks-flaws-and)
Bitcoin Education
Mapping the nodes of the bitcoin peer to peer network (https://medium.com/@gloriazhao/map-of-the-bitcoin-network-c6f2619a76f3) by Gloria Zhao
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Corrections
None today!
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Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
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