Episode 57: Bitcoin, Crypto's Designated Driver

Episode 57: Bitcoin, Crypto's Designated Driver

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-show Banter
Someone, possibly Sam, is anonomizing the contents (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/12/29/alameda-research-liquidated-ether-based-token-holdings-for-bitcoin-in-past-24-hours-on-chain-data-show) of Alameda wallets
Sam Bankman-Fried had 4 White House meetings in 2022 — as recently as September 8th. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/bankman-fried-met-white-house-aides-in-pre-collapse-crypto-push)
News
Speculating on a European Union ban on bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/eu-will-likely-ban-bitcoin-to-no-avail)
Neal Stephenson has an L1 Blockchain Company (https://venturebeat.com/games/neal-stephensons-lamina1-drops-white-paper-on-building-the-open-metaverse/), sellout (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/12/24/1551243/neal-stephensons-lamina1-launches-fund-to-invesA year of t-in-open-metaverse-projects) or misguided?
Highlights from one of the worst White Papers of All Time (https://paste.docs.lol/raw/ControvertPictograms)
Lamina1 Whitepaper (PDF WARNING ) (https://www.lamina1.com/docs/Lamina1_Whitepaper_1.1.pdf)
70% of crypto exchange volume is wash trading (https://cointelegraph.com/news/70-of-unregulated-exchange-transactions-are-wash-trading-nber-study), no s**t
Economics
The European Central Bank's balance sheet is reducing rapidly (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/12/28/echttps://h.docs.lol/tbEY4pKFTb2CXJy0GQetaQ?bothbs-balance-sheet-plunges-by-e492-billion-in-one-week-and-by-e850-billion-from-peak/) illustrating the rapid pivots of liquidity that will characterize our inflation/deflation decade
War and Commodity Encumbrance, Zoltan is looking at politics not central banking (!PDF WARNING!) (https://plus2.credit-suisse.com/shorturlpdf.html?v=5h1o-8SW-V&t=-6f9o9gxfcir9ldit6fbbldzzx) to forecast the future
Privacy
Portable secret looks really cool (https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret/)
Bitcoin Education
A look at hardfork safety through the lense of Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) (https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-sv-hardfork-significant-security-risks/), Craig Wright's garbage bitcoin fork
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