Episode 45: Might Makes Censorship

Episode 45: Might Makes Censorship

Bitcoin Dad Pod

News
NYDIG lays off 30% of their staff (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/14/crypto-trading-firm-nydig-lays-off-about-33-of-staff/), guess all these finance pros didn't get their timing right
But apparently web3 devs (https://cointelegraph.com/news/web3-devs-more-active-than-ever-amid-crypto-winter-report) are still going strong, doubtful
Paypal promotes bitcoin with a new censorship policy and financial fines for users (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/paypal_fine_disinformation/)
The technical basis for their system makes this possible thus morally requires censorship
A massive taproot multisig broke btcd and LND (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/115527/what-is-the-october-2022-bug-in-lnd-what-caused-it-and-what-would-prevent-a-sim)
Economics
Lyn Alden's October newsletter (https://www.lynalden.com/october-2022-newsletter/) connects energy and soverign bonds: checkmate
Fiancial sage Russell Napier describes the portfolio insuranve use case for bitcoin (https://themarket.ch/interview/russell-napier-the-world-will-experience-a-capex-boom-ld.7606)
Tokenomics
Kim pumped an altcoin scam (https://amycastor.com/2022/10/05/the-sec-busts-kim-kardashian-over-ethereummax-pour-encourager-les-autres/), paid a fine, and the SEC acted like it was a big deal
CSW, aka "Faketoshi," argues with a bot on twitter (https://twitter.com/hascendp6/status/1580973154477871104)
His trial against Hodlnaut is revealing multiple frauds from CSW (https://mylegacykit.medium.com/my-top-5-craig-wright-forgeries-from-the-hodlonaut-v-wright-trial-de3c936f7610)
Privacy
Mullvad is recomending using GrapheneOS on Android to reduce VPN data leaks (https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/10/10/android-leaks-connectivity-check-traffic/)
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #221 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/12/) has a long offline funds protection proposal
The story of Hydra (https://archive.ph/80d3L) is a fascinating look at Dark Net Markets
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Corrections
The US Oil boom started in West Penn with Standard Oil, then moved to Texas
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Boost Notes
Intro to space chains (https://vimeo.com/703246895/d89aba6e56) and the Telegram discussion group (https://t.me/spacechains)
Getting into the culture wars with this response (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas) to the Jordan Peterson is a philosopher comment and this list of Stephan M's various racist claims (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stefan-molyneux)
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
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