Intro Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief (https://geyser.fund/project/earthquakereliefturkey) News The UK believes that 'Britcoin' (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/06/britcoin-digital-currency-could-be-in-use-by-end-of-decade),a government digital curency, will be deployed this decade Localbitcoins, a decentralized-ish peer to peer bitcoin exchange, is shuting down operations (https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/) Localbitcoins was mentioned in the bitzlato documents (https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/02/09/localbitcoins-matching-exchange-cited-by-us-in-bizlato-case-to-close-after-10-years-of-operation) Might be due to general pressure on many bitcoin businesses Binance, the offshore crypto exchange controled by CZ, is cut off from the USD banking system (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=binance-suspends-usd-bank-transfers) This is a deathblow if they don't solve it quickly Is this a coordinated effort to push bitcoin/crypto businesses (https://www.piratewires.com/p/crypto-choke-point) out of the banking system? Economics Monetary Policy, specifically quantitative tightening, doesn't take money out of the righ places (https://fedguy.com/come-hell-or-high-water/) in the economy Privacy Telegram, the Russian billionare owned chat app, seems to be sharing user messages to the Kremlin (https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/) Bitcoin Education The Coldcard Q1 hardware wallet was announced and looks like a blackberry (https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1623698350481760259), so lets talk hardware wallets Bitcoin Optech #237 covers 'storing data on the blockchain' (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/08/), yes its about Ordinals 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/) Boosts From: anonymous 10,000 sats Thoughts on stratum V2 and its relative progress towards becoming the standard for pools? The Luxor incident seems to have highlighted the need for this. Stratum V2 (https://stratumprotocol.org/) 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! 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) Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)