Pre-Show Optimism foundation is dumping tokens (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/21/optimism-foundation-sells-157m-op-tokens-citing-treasury-management), they are the technological provider of Coinbase's 'base' protocol News Amboss.space has a new lightning node liquidity (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amboss-launches-hydro/) provisioning system. Must trade sats for 'ambucks' The Mt Gox, an early crypto exchange that failed spectacularly, trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi (https://www.noandt.com/en/lawyers/nobuaki_kobayashi/) hs delayed repayments another year PDF (https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20230921_announcement_en.pdf) The Gox story is an early bitcoin parable on the danger and general incopetence (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-gox/) of custodians in what became the bitcoin space The former exchange website lists official bankruptcy (https://www.mtgox.com/) documents and won't redirect from http to https The bankruptcy proceedings have revealed the inaddequacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s) of the Japanese bankruptcy system The one individual charged relating to the Mt. Gox hack Alexander Vinnik (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alleged-russian-cryptocurrency-money-launderer-extradited-united-states) was extradited to the US in 2022 Economics The US Fed remains hawkish in its latest press conference (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/09/20/in-very-hawkish-hold-fed-keeps-rates-at-5-50-top-of-range-sees-one-more-hike-in-2023-and-only-two-rate-cuts-in-2024-to-5-25-by-yearend-qt-continues/) holding at a 5.50% interest rate but the US Treasury yield curve (https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/) predicts rates falling, so the FED is likely wrong again (Eurodollar futures are also falling (https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/eurodollar-streaming-chart)) Capital outflows from China (https://archive.ph/Ipwgn) are increasing, not a good sign Privacy The COBRA bitcoin case (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-org-operator-loses-appeal-to-craig-wright/) demonstrates how pseudonomity can be attacked through legal shennanigans The Privacy Dad has some interesting thoughts on privacy in schools (https://theprivacydad.com/an-argument-for-using-schools-in-the-fight-for-digital-privacy/) as a place to fight the privacy war Bitcoin Education Inscriptions are not going away (https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1704748379451130347) and they have changed the bitcoin fee market (perhaps forever?) A python script can sort of predict the USD price of bitcoin (https://github.com/Unbesteveable/UTXOracle/tree/main) using your nodes sats data and a template that predicts USD price relationships accross satoshis 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/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)