Bitcoin Dad Pod
Bitcoin Dad Pod
The Bitcoin Dad is here to explain the context around the monetary revolution that is Bitcoin. The technological, social, and financial complexities of Bitcoin are hard to understand and your Bitcoin Dad will give you a foundation to make up your own mind. He'll cover news, history, and a lot of practical projects that you can do yourself to get started with Bitcoin!
Episode 81: Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for Thee
5/28/2023 • 1hr 12m
Pre-Show Bottlepay shuts down again (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bottlepay-is-shutting-down/) News High bitcoin fees are leading to an explosion of scaling ideas, including Barak the lightning slayer's ARK, an offchain private scaling solution (https://www.arkpill.me/faq) Barak explains it deeply (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021694.html) on the linux mailing list WalletScrutiny has been taken down again (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/walletscrutiny-com-is-down-due-to-dmca-takedown-notice/) due to a nuissance lawsuit Must check resource before using a wallet (https://walletscrutiny.com/) US HoR Representative Tom Emmer (https://emmer.house.gov/2023/5/emmer-and-soto-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-provide-regulatory-clarity-for-digital-assets)'s proposed Securities Clarity act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4451?s=1&r=98) is a shipcoin bill Altcoins OpenAI + WorldCoin, debunking ultra-scammer Sam Altman's agenda (https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-sam-altman-raises-115-mln-worldcoin-crypto-project-2023-05-25/) WorldCoin is built on Cosmos (https://worldcoin.org/articles/what-is-cosmos-crypto) a plug and play VC blockchain solution Worldcoin gitub repo is completely dead (https://github.com/worldcoin) Get some context on OpenAI and ChatGPT by listening to Coder Radio 519: Not So OpenAI (https://coder.show/519) Economics and Banking Evidence emerges that central banks around the world coordinated a 2008 manipulation (https://archive.is/itv9C) of LIBOR JP Morgan explains that the Fed helped design (https://www.jpmorgan.com/commercial-banking/insights/the-global-move-away-from-LIBOR) SOFOR, an easier to control alternative LIBOR was killed due to a 2012 scandal (https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/understanding-libor-scandal) where banks gamed LIBOR to make derivative returns Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Core v25 released with significant maintenance upgrades (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-25.0.md?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) including higher witness data limits, better error messages, and more build options Awesome Robostats (https://archive.ph/5W46l) guide Bitcoin Optech #252 covers (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/24/) 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/)
Episode 80: Hardware Wallet Web Backup
5/20/2023 • 1hr 22m
Pre-Show Etherium transactions stopped finalizing briefly (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/05/17/ethereums-loss-of-finality-what-happened/) last week but it didn't really cause issues News Altcoins Ledger Recovery is a terrible idea poorly executed (https://stacker.news/items/179721) but its understandable that this model of crypto custody would be tried eventually How Nunchuk multisig wallet works (https://nunchuk.io/how-it-works), an alternative inheritance strategy Seth also explains what's wrong (https://nitter.it/sethforprivacy/status/1658544658761277447) No Grayscal trust for FileCoin (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/05/17/filecoin-price-drops-after-sec-asks-grayscale-to-withdraw-fil-trust-application/) says SEC Even Justin Sun says FileCoin (https://eng.ambcrypto.com/is-filecoin-an-exit-scam-asks-trons-justin-sun/) is a pump and dump scam How does Filecoin work? It's complicated. (https://docs.filecoin.io/basics/what-is-filecoin/overview/) https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html Economics and Banking Arthur's latest blog post The Denominator (https://blog.bitmex.com/the-denominator/) explores the changing risk in the US banking system and the implications for long term growth (bad) (TLDR: nationalize banking system and bitcoin wins or don't but cut rates, bitcoin wins) Europe has its first Bitcoin ETF (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/jacobi-asset-management-to-launch-spot-bitcoin-etf-europe), how is Europe lapping the US in cyrpto finance (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/05/16/eus-crypto-legal-framework-inches-towards-law-with-finance-ministers-sign-off/) Bitcoin Education Fiatjaf's idea to use spacechains and fedimints (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/using-spacechains-and-fedimint-to-solve-scaling/) to scale bitcoin transcation throughput 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/)
Episode 79: Interview: Ordinals, Inscriptions & BRC-20 with Brandon Black
5/17/2023 • 43m
A brief history of the brief history of ordinal inscriptions (https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-07-2023) on bitcoin from glassnode Another introduction to ordinals (https://blog.bitgo.com/the-rise-of-ordinal-inscriptions-dbe7cb0336c6) from crypto company Bitgo Bitcoin developer Andrew Poelstra on why banning arbitrary data (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html) from the bitcoin blockchain isn't feasible The Ordinal docs (https://docs.ordinals.com) The introductory doc to BRC-20 (https://domo-2.gitbook.io/brc-20-experiment) experiment which uses ordinals to create altcoins on bitcoin Brandon Black's github (https://github.com/brandonblack)
Episode 78: Going Full Editorial
5/15/2023 • 56m
News Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-held-on-exchanges-hits-5-year-low/) PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/08/paypal-to-acquire-cryptocurrency-custody-startup-curv/) Commercial Real Estate is the next legacy asset to implode and a test sale (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/05/09/what-are-older-office-towers-worth-heres-the-first-sale-in-san-franciscos-new-era-of-office-cre/) indicates prices could fall by 75% Frontline's The Age of Easy Money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw), a documentary about FED policy in the 2010s Bitcoin Education Come to Adopting Bitcoin (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/adopting-bitcoin-2023-11-07-san-salvador/) Bitcoin Optech #250 showcases a paper on POWswap (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/10/), a way for miners to 'insure' themselves against changes in hashrate, and several release candidates Also covers some concerns from Adam Gibson (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-April/021594.html) with signature adaptors (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/adaptor-signatures/) 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/)
Episode 77: Bitcoin: TNG w/ Anthony Park
5/10/2023 • 29m
Interview: Anthony S. Park - Bitcoin Executor Note: no affiliation with Anthony and this conent is focused on practices in the United States Make a plan since dealing with an estate (https://anthonyspark.com/e313-how-to-think-like-your-bitcoin-heirs/) is harder than you think Anthony on not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good (https://anthonyspark.com/e308-have-a-placeholder-bitcoin-inheritance-plan/) in your estate planning Say hi to Anthony on twitter at @btcexecutor (https://twitter.com/btcexecutor) or checkout his podcast that he didn't mention (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-money-wins/id1428593055) A bitcoin executor nomination (https://anthonyspark.com/e292-help-i-dont-have-a-bitcoin-executor-for-my-will/) in your will 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/)
Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody Cares
5/6/2023 • 1hr 19m
Pre-Show The AdoptingBTC conference (https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab23/) in El Salvador on November 7th News The U.S. Whitehouse is proposing a new tax (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/biden-admin-bitcoin-mining-tax/) on electricity used by bitcoin miners Jen W, a journalist at NYMAG, has a great expose (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/is-the-federal-government-trying-to-kill-off-crypto.html) on the regulatory hurdles being used to drive "Crypto" businesses out of the United States Glassnode, a blockchain data providor, reviews what moved on the bitcoin blockchain (https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-18-2023/) this week Lyn Alden on the structure and implications of open monetary networks (https://www.lynalden.com/open-networks/) .i.e. the very structure and rules of money create the current state of society Altcoins Coinmetrics on MakerDAO (https://archive.is/wip/n9kLQ), a decentralized collateralized stablecoin, that is struggling to remain decentralized and stable Economics and Banking First Republic bank is has been sold to JP Morgan (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/05/01/first-republic-zombie-bank-dismembered-pieces-handed-to-jp-morgan-uninsured-depositors-bailed-out-stockholders-some-bondholders-bailed-in/) as the U.S. Banking crisis accelerates Though some regional banks dispute claims (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230504005831/en/Western-Alliance-Bancorporation-Issues-Statement-Disputing-Recent-Financial-Times-Article) of their financial distress Even the IMF's own research (https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2022/11/11/Wage-Price-Spirals-What-is-the-Historical-Evidence-525073) don't support the wage-price spiral argument that justifies current central bank anti-employment policy Privacy Lets talk payjoins (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tracking-payjoin-adoption/) and other Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #249 covers another proposal for bitcoin vaults (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/03/) and waxwing's thoughts on adapter signatures which are necessary for new taproot multisig constructions 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/)
Episode 75: Reaction to Huw Pill
5/3/2023 • 1hr 1m
Who is Huw Pill? Bank of England career page (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/huw-pill/biography) The 2% inflation target is not scientific (https://qz.com/2022696/where-did-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target-come-from) it came from an off the cuff remark by a New Zealand official The podcast in question (https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/beyond-unprecedented-post-pandemic-economy) Edward Chancellor's excellent book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Take_the_Hindmost) on financial panics 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/)
Episode 74: A Checking Account to Rule Them All
4/30/2023 • 1hr 12m
Pre-Show Millions of dollars lost while moving through an airport (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-police-investigating-c20-million-gold-heist-toronto-airport-2023-04-20/) contrasts with over $10 million in BTC (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/12y32xa/over_10_million_in_btc_was_sent_in_1_transaction/) was sent in 1 transaction this morning, and it cost the sender $5 News Better update LND lightning nodes (https://stacker.news/items/170942) as it looks like a critical vulernability was discovered The release lnd v0.16.1-beta (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.16.1-beta) notes Altcoins Crypto did not cause Signature, Silvergate and SVB collapses, and FTX exposure was minimal per a U.S. Congressional report (https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-27/Crypto-did-not-cause-Signature-Silvergate-and-SVB-collapses-and-FTX-exposure-was-minimal-Congressional-report.html) The report (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12148) istelf Economics and Banking The U.S.A.'s banking crisis is not over (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/04/24/first-republic-discloses-its-a-zombie/) as First Republic limps on A former FDIC official observes that the FDIC is broke (https://podverse.fm/episode/wYVEpVzaC) after nationalizing Sillicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank Arthur's baaaack and on fire with his latest blogpost (https://blog.bitmex.com/exit-liquidity/) on what a dollarized world is from a trade perspective and what comes next (gold then bitcoin?) China's gold reserves (https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2023/02/chinas-gold-market-january-gold-reserves-continued-rise#:~:text=Gold%20reserves%20rose%20further&text=By%20the%20end%20of%20January%2C%20China%27s%20gold%20reserves%20reached%202%2C025,of%20China%27s%20total%20official%20reserves) continue to rise, perhaps as an alternative escape hatch for trade surpluses Lyn Alden is also back discussing the US debt ceiling (https://www.lynalden.com/april-2023-newsletter/) and how it will interact with relativly illiquid financial markets Bitcoin Education How does a smaller bicoin node (https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo) that uses more bandwidth sound? Meet utreexo (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/utreexo/) 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/)
Episode 73: Nuclear Buyback
4/25/2023 • 1hr 30m
Pre-Show Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail (https://www.theblock.co/post/227329/alexey-pertsev-tornado-cash-developer-free-pending-trial) after 6 months in jail waiting a trial News Economics and Banking The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Commitee (TBAC (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financing-the-government/quarterly-refunding/treasury-borrowing-advisory-committee-tbac)), proposed a Treasury buyback program (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1239) in February, another sign that Yield Curve Control is the solution to the U.S. Governments debt spiral The 1 yr US Treasury bill continues to sharply invert (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/04/20/short-end-of-the-treasury-market-goes-totally-nuts-doubts-creep-in-over-debt-ceiling/), expressing a negative economic outlook Energy Germany shut down its remaining nuclear plants (https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/A-guide-The-end-of-Germany%E2%80%99s-nuclear-power) after a multi-decade political shift against nuclear energy Eon, a German energy producer, increased electricity prices by 45 percent (https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/eon-erhoeht-strompreise/amp) in related news english version (https://www-tichyseinblick-de.translate.goog/daili-es-sentials/eon-erhoeht-strompreise/amp?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp) Privacy Trezor, a hardware wallet, adds coinjoin integration for user privacy, but its through Wassabi Wallets ZKSnacks' coordiator that does chain analysis on users (https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/sethforprivacy/status/1648727943470776320) before letting them coinjoin MullvadVPN, a reputable privacy focused VPN provider, was served a warrant (https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/) in Sweden, their home juristiction, no customer data was handed over since Mullvad collects no such data jam (https://github.com/joinmarket-webui/jam) is a webui on top of joinmarket, a maker-taker based coinjoin protocol that avoids the centralized coordinator issues of Samurai and Wasabi Bitcoin Education Let's talk bitcoin's security model (https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-security-modeling/) to see if critique's of bitcoin security (https://twitter.com/mira_hurley/status/1648624743589740545) are useful or the new FUD 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: For recurrent boosts like a membership model, try using oak.home (https://oak-node.net/doc/trunk/README.md) to boost the show's LNURL: bdadpod@getalby.com 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/)
Episode 72: Cracked Critique
4/17/2023 • 1hr 11m
Pre-Show Sweden hikes taxes on datacenters (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/14/sweden-drives-final-nail-into-its-bitcoin-mining-industry-with-tax-hike/) bitcoin miners included Riot Blockchain's critique of the NYT (https://www.riotplatforms.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/150/riot-platforms-inc-statement-the-new-york-times)'s latest anti-bitcoin mining (https://archive.is/MQ7fm) article News A critique of Bitcoin's value proposition (https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/04/a-systematic-critique-of-bitcoins-value.html) focuses on nitpiking the whitepaper but provides a good introcution to bitcoin's security model Altcoins The ETH Shanghai hardfork has enabled unstaking (https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/state-of-the-network-issue-202#%C2%A7the-shanghai-redemption-ethereums-latest-upgrade) and the onchain activity suggests relatively high demand to hold for stakers LIDO will not enable withdrawls (https://twitter.com/irina_everstake/status/1644068825107779629) but it seems like a reasonable technical schedule Arthur Hayes, one of the BitMex founders, is shilling his investments in ETH staking infrastructure (https://blog.bitmex.com/shapellas-show/), a variation of buying the first page of alts in a bull rise Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #246 covers a new proposal for off chain lightning channel rebalancing (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/29/) that builds on channel factories NOSTR education and an LNBits guide (https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lnbits-nostr-market) by friend of the show darthCoin 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/)
Episode 71: Dimon Handz
4/9/2023 • 1hr 25m
BDP 71 Pre-Show Coin CEO Bob Lee was stabbed to death (https://protos.com/mobilecoin-exec-bob-lee-stabbed-to-death-in-san-francisco-attack/) in San Francisco News The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down (https://paxful.com/sign-up-transition) and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures 2016 bitcoin talk forums were already suspicious (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1621766.0) of paxful Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved with OPNX, an exchange to trade the bankrupt claims the two scammers created (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/04/opnx-exchange-which-offers-ftx-claims-trading-led-by-three-arrows-founders-is-now-live/) Economics and Banking The U.S. Federal Reserve never talks about eurodollars, but a former FED trader gives a very FED-ish take (https://fedguy.com/ameridollars/) on eurodollars in a period of bank deposit risk Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan a GSIB investment bank, summarizes the problem of balancy sheet capacity (https://archive.is/NGhlD) that led to the SVB bank failure Energy Texas Legislature votes to limit participation (https://archive.ph/dbtvd) in demand response schemes to less than 10% (https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1751/id/2730952) of all demand response capacity Texan bill to create gold-backed digital currency (https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html) is slightly baffling Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #245 covers a new proposal for watchtower accountability (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/04/05/) on lightning Neutrino is a bitcoin node (https://github.com/jtymoszczuk/neutrino-guide) that validates but does not store the entire history 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: Jinformatique - no kyc p2p TAILS on a USB sticks. installed sparrow with persistance data. multisig with 3 paper wallets and another single sig paper wallet. robosats to buy my first sats KYC free throught Alby. coinos.io to swap lightning to on-chian 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/)
Episode 70: Derivative enforcement leaves few options...
4/2/2023 • 1hr 2m
Intro Silk Road Crypto Sale: US Govt Sells 9,800 BTC, Aims to Offload 41,500 More (https://u.today/silk-road-crypto-sale-us-govt-sells-9800-btc-aims-to-offload-41500-more) News CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/us-regulator-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-and-boss-changpeng-zhao), the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to U.S. customers while pretending to bar them from the platform China may also be going after (https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/us-and-china-try-to-crush-binance-sbfs-40m-bribe-claim-asia-express/) Binance due to the bans on cryptocurrency trading on the mainland Some more schadenfreude (https://amycastor.com/2023/03/30/crypto-collapse-new-sam-bankman-fried-charge-binance-fallout-sec-sues-exchange-over-crypto-securities-how-signature-died/) from crypto skeptic Amy Castor Economics and Banking A history of the US-Saudia debt recycling deal (https://archive.is/vAsyB) from Bloomberg, a financial news company Saudi Arabia reduces 36.7% of its holdings of US treasury securities in two years (https://www.zawya.com/en/wealth/wealth-management/saudi-arabia-reduces-367-of-its-holdings-of-us-treasury-securities-in-two-years-utu3efvn) Learn more by reading a history of modern energy politics and money (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disorder-9780198864981?cc=us&lang=en&) by Helen Thompson Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #244 covers multiparty channels (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/29/) and channel factories (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/channel-factories/) 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 Petar sent in the largest boost in the show's history at 222,222 sats! defnotskynet sugests looking at lifecycle emissions studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources) to understand the methodology of grading energy sources by emission Meremortals wanted to learn more about bitcoin energy usage calculations, so check out the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons) 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/)
Episode 69: Steady lads! Deploying more capital...
3/25/2023 • 1hr 23m
Intro SBF gave buddies at Modulu Capital nearly half a billion dollars of stolen funds, and they're giving it back (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/23/ftx-bankruptcy-estate-to-claw-back-460m-from-modulo-capital), guilty conscience? Do Kwan, founder of crypto-scam Terra/Luna, has been arrested in Montenegro (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/24/do-kwon-charged-due-in-montenegro-court-for-extradition-hearing-afp/) News Coinbase, a U.S. cryto exchange, recieved a notice of impending legal action (https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-could-face-sec-enforcement-action-for-potential-violations-of-securities-law) from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) They're also going after Justin Sun (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59), the founder of crypto scam Tron, among many other shady financial schemes Lindsey Lohan promoted one of his scams and is also being charged Great article about what a tool (https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china) Justin Sun is Hindenburg Research, an activist short selling investment firm, has published a report on Block (https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/), a U.S. fintech company with a bitcoin focus HR is an interesting business focused on attacking stock valuations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research) by exposing fraud and generating negative media Coinbase eyeing offshore exchange to escape US regulatory pressure (https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-eyeing-offshore-exchange-to-escape-us-regulatory-pressure/) Economics and Banking The U.S. Federal Reserve, the world's primary Central Bank, will hit the gas and breaks at the same time (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/22/powell-explains-the-feds-new-regime-rate-hikes-qt-to-fight-inflation-while-offering-liquidity-to-banks-to-keep-them-from-toppling/) in a bid to maintain 'credible' monetary policy The real balance is acting serious on inflation while preventing blow ups on the balance sheets of bond holders Central Banks globally are panicked and announcing (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230319a.htm) policy coordination The Economic Report of the (US) President has a whole chapter (PDF WARNING) (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ERP-2023.pdf) on 'digital assets' Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #243 has lots of software updates (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/22/) and new software release candidates Xapo, a Gibralter based bank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xapo#cite_note-11), has built lighting integration 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 Chris' notes: 'Member you won't just have liquidity disappear You'll know when you have large sales Boosts are not invoice based. You won't have the problems like we do. LightningNetwork+ (https://lightningnetwork.plus/) 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 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)+ 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/)
Episode 68: Then they fight you[r bank]
3/20/2023 • 1hr 32m
Intro SBF, former CEO of crypto Ponzi scheme FTX, stole literally billions (https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2023/03/16/sam-bankman-fried-transferred-22bn-in-ftx-customer-funds-for-personal-use-filings-show/) of customer deposits and investor funds Forbes nails it again (https://twitter.com/nights62/status/1636438392824283136) ## News 🎶 Convert any audio to text 📝 Signature Bank, the 'other' crypto-focused bank, has been nationalized (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/signature-bank-third-biggest-bank-failure-in-us-history.html) along with Sillicon Valley Bank (SVB) per an FDIC announcement (https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23017.html) The US President was consulted Signature Banks wasn't bankrupt (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/barney-frank-says-more-shuttering-signature-bank.html), it was nationalized as part of anti crypto-banking policy Central Banks globally are panicked and announcing (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230319a.htm) policy coordination Economics Can a bank be too safe (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1635377628608856064?cxt=HHwWgIDQrbzSg7ItAAAA)? Yes, according to the US Federal Reserve. A history of account insurance limits (https://twitter.com/lynaldencontact/status/1634761951761903618) by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Lyn Alden's explainer on bank runs (https://www.lynalden.com/march-2023-newsletter/) puts the last week of bank chaos into context Bitcoin Education RoninDojo is selling pixel6 mobile phones (https://ronindojo.io/en/roninmobile) pre-loaded with Graphene or CalyxOS Let's talk macaroons (https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/macaroons) per a listener email 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/) Links LN Address (http://lnaddress.me/) can be used to setup a reusable lightning address openai-whisper-cpu: Improving transcription performance of OpenAI Whisper for CPU based deployment (https://github.com/MiscellaneousStuff/openai-whisper-cpu) 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) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts 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/)
Episode 67: Bad Week for Bankers
3/12/2023 • 57m
Intro If you can shutdown your blockchain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/09/hedera-turns-off-services-after-network-irregularities) when 'network irregularities' are detected...it's not a decentralized system Lido, the centralized staking crypto as a service company, has a an unregistered security LDO that crashed on rumors of a Wells Notice (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=lido-token-price-tanks-after-podcaster-spreads-inaccurate-rumor-of-wells-notice) News A B + The US treasury has some thoughts on CBDCs (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1314?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscryptocurrency&stream=business#_ftnref4), and most have to do with projecting US financial power, not creating great money Silvergate Bank, an important crypto banking institution, is winding down operations (https://archive.ph/3U6g6) after a bank run and regulatory pressure Sillicon Valley Bank, a regional California bank that focuses on startup and tech company banking, has been closed by regulators (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-shuttered-by-state-regulators/) due to 'solvency and liquidity concerns' U.S. government takes control of Silicon Valley Bank (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-government-control-fdic) Reports are circulating that Gemini, a New York based crypto exchange, might be losing their banking access (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=gemini-reportedly-loses-banking-with-jpmorgan) from JP Morgan The New York Attourney General, a public prosecutor who represents all residents of New York state, is suing KuCoin (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/09/new-york-attorney-general-sues-crypto-exchange-kucoin-alleges-ether-is-a-security/) for offering unregistered securities Etherium is argued to be a security (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=XDXIUrIw3tVafxqwEqVfKw==) in this lawsuit (PDF Warning) Erik Voorhees on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1633946600891400193) "So the state will attack BTC for using electricity, and ETH for being a security. Wise people in crypto will defend both, easily. The attack will fail on both counts, and the blocks will keep ticking... and on the horizon you can almost see fiat's arms flailing in desperation." The energy attack on bitcoin (https://twitter.com/level39/status/1634219832085295112) is pretense, but ETH is still probably a security Why is Arthur Hayes explaining synthetic dollars (https://blog.bitmex.com/dust-on-crust/) againhttps://h.docs.lol/bViitnHOQFmgjUaruEMUCQ#? Does it have to do with stablecoins achilles heel being banking? Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #241 covers new Core Lightning features (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/08/) and the Bitcoin Inqisition (https://bitcoincore.reviews/bitcoin-inquisition-16) soft fork testnet project FeedbackA B 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! A B 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 sA Bupport 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)+ 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/)
Episode 66: Bitcoin, HODL it tight
3/6/2023 • 1hr 3m
Pre-Show Bantz SBF's going retro as the US Department of Justice proposes no smartphones (https://cointelegraph.com/news/u-s-attorney-seeks-to-narrow-sam-bankman-fried-s-bail-terms-use-only-flip-phones) or internet access as a bail condition News El Salvador is suddenly a wall street darling (https://archive.is/cPlVy) after repaying some outstanding debt There has been reporting that El Salvador's civil servants haven't been paid...but hard to verify Silvergate, a US regional bank turned into a crypto company banking provider, is probably closing its doors after shutting down (https://cointelegraph.com/news/silvergate-closes-exchange-network-releases-9-9m-to-blockfi) its internal dollar payment network More Tether fraud allegations (https://archive.is/50s0q) from the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper, that speaks to current anti-crypto banking sentiment Privacy Consider self-hosting your communication as discord policy rules (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/10575066024983) are tightening restrictions including monetization Simple-X-chat is an interesting private chat (https://github.com/simplex-chat) option that can be self-hosted Bitcoin Education Darthcoin helps Bluewallet users connect to their own lighting backend (https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bluewallet-connect-to-ln-funding), after Bluewallet shut down custodial lightning services Bitcoin Optech #240 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/01/) 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! Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.founs pro-Wall Streettain.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)+ 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/) courtes pro-Wall Streetsy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 65: Just add more blockchains
2/27/2023 • 1hr 13m
Intro Ordinals force introspection on how initial block download (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/117057) works in bitcoin News Coinbase, a crypto exchange, is building an ETH L2 chain (https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base) called 'base', that will be a super chain (https://stack.optimism.io/docs/understand/explainer/#the-value-of-scalable-decentralized-compute-is-immense) one day Its built on the ETH L2 optimism (https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-optimism/) The U.S. Federal Reserve, a central bank, confirmed its denial (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/orders20230223a.htm) of Wyoming bank Custodia's application for a FED Master Account (https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-federal-reserve-denies-custodia-bank-s-request-for-fed-supervision) Economics Changes to the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PCI) actually raised inflation numbers (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/02/21/how-the-cpi-weights-changed-and-moved-cpi-meet-the-surprises/) for 2022 in the United States Privacy Signal, a private messaging app, calls out the magical thinking (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001) of the U.K.'s latest 'online child safety' law that bans end to end encryption Bitcoin Education Want to understand cyptography better? Try gandlaf's beginner focued (https://gandlaf.substack.com/p/elliptic-curve-cryptography-for-noobs?sort=new) guide Bitcoin Optech #239 covers OP_VAULT (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/22/) and Lightning Channel qality of service flags 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! 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)+ 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/)
Episode 64: Still Waiting for Constructive Feedback
2/20/2023 • 1hr 15m
Intro Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief (https://geyser.fund/project/earthquakereliefturkey) SBF's mysterious bail bond guarantors (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html) were revealed to be ... family friends? No independant examiner (https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/ftx-bankruptcy-judge-rejects-independent-examiner-appointment-motion-fearing-100-million-loss-202302151650) for the FTX fraud means no action against the many people who supported SBF and looted customer funds But don't worry, SBF's VPN use (https://meaww.com/who-are-larry-kramer-and-andreas-paepcke-sam-bankman-frieds-bail-backers-are-stanford-academics) is only for watching football, not looting FTX crypto wallets (https://www.ibtimes.com/ftx-hacker-ends-moving-41m-worth-stolen-funds-okx-3641662) Lee Rainier, a crypto law professor and former Federal Reserve employee, testifies before the U.S. Senate (https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Reiners%20Testimony%202-14-23.pdf) banking comittee on why bitcoin should be banned News Fedi, a company based around Fedimint technology, Hackathon develops modules (https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedimint-hackaton-winners) to create US dollar stable value in a fedimint Creditors of Mt Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, have an early payout option (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/16/mt-goxs-2-largest-creditors-pick-payout-option-that-wont-force-bitcoin-selloff-sources/) It was the biggest exchange failure (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mt-gox-hack/) in bitcoin history and many thought it would kill bitcoin Pack it up, party's over, the Wall Street Journal, a pro-business newspaper, reveals that six developers control bitcoin (https://archive.ph/2023.02.16-195618/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/bitcoin-core-maintainers-crypto-7b93804) /s Article shows a lack of basic knowledge of how open source projects operate and bitcoin consensus works Arthur may have called the bull market (https://blog.bitmex.com/be-present/) based on liquidity conditions Economics Lyn Alden's February newsletter (https://www.lynalden.com/february-2023-newsletter/) covers She also has a marvelous article on the US Federal Reserve's recent shift to operating at a loss (https://www.lynalden.com/broke-federal-reserve/) Arthur has a view on trading based on financial system (https://blog.bitmex.com/be-present/) liquidity Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #238 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/15/) links to a bitcoin documentation search engine (https://bitcoinsearch.xyz/?q=block%20headers&size=n_50_n) 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: Bob B Oak: Home (https://oak-node.net/doc/trunk/README.md) Oak Node gives you Scheduled Payments. Now you can send sats to a Lightning Address on a schedule. Support your favorite content creators every week, every day, or even every block! Up to you. From: Hal was right P2P exchange guide (https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/) 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/)
Episode 63: Non-Consensual Financial Choking
2/12/2023 • 58m
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/)
Episode 62: It's my trial and I'll tamper if I want to...
2/7/2023 • 56m
Intro SBF doesn't want his bail conditions to prevent him from tampering with potential witnesses (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/03/sam-bankman-fried-negotiating-bail-conditions-court-filing/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines) in the case against him News Strike to expand app for US remitances to the Phillipenes (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/bitcoin-based-app-strike-expands-in-philippines-to-grow-cross-border-payment-solutions/), which is nearly $1bn a month Privacy Mullvad sounds the alarm (https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/) on EU 'save the children' mass surveillance that might interfere with open source licenses Shoutout to No BS Bitcoin (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/) for the article Bitcoin Education Bitcoin optech #236 introduces serverless payjoin (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/01/) The proposal is to use noise protocol (http://www.noiseprotocol.org/) to implement p2p payjoin directly connecting user wallet Ordinals are on chain NFS (https://ordinals.com) or digital artifacts, on bitcoin 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 Some Nostr ideas from @adoptingbitcoin: Android clients: iris.to, snort.social, amethyst iOS: Damus 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/)
Episode 61: Tell me you aren't decentralized without...
1/29/2023 • 1hr 10m
Intro Strike Announces Clover Point of Sale Beta Program (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/strike-announces-clover-point-of-sale-beta-program/), enabling self custodial lightning use with merchant terminals News Next ETH upgrade is a fascinating dumpster fire (https://decrypt.co/119620/ethereum-devs-divided-staking-withdrawals-shanghai) ETH holders have been able to stake their coins since the Beacon Chain, Ethereum’s Proof of Stake consensus layer, went live in Dec. 2020. many stakers expected withdrawals to be enabled last year. More than 16M Ether worth more than $26B is staked on the Beacon Chain. Roughly 14% of Ethereum's total supply is currently locked up in staking pools. More: Ethereum Takes Big Step Closer to Shanghai Upgrade - The Defiant (https://thedefiant.io/ethereum-shadow-forks-shanghai) Prime Trust is withdrawing from Texas (https://support.primetrust.com/hc/en-us/articles/12311667597083-What-is-happening-) due to a failed Money Transmitter License application Prime keeps theirlicense disclosures public and up to date on their site. [Prime Trust] Licenses Disclosures(https://www.primetrust.com/legal/licenses-disclosures) Fold⚡️ (https://twitter.com/fold_app/status/1618678390453854208), a Prime Trust Customer, explains the situation White House statement on digital assets (https://www.whitehouse.gov/nec/briefing-room/2023/01/27/the-administrations-roadmap-to-mitigate-cryptocurrencies-risks/) Anounces and R&D agenda (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/26/2023-01534/request-for-information-digital-assets-research-and-development) that will try to guide crypto development Economics Goldman Sachs Awkwardly Describes Bitcoin as Best Performing Asset of 2023 (https://blog.bosstrack.com/goldman-sachs-described-bitcoin-as-best-performing-asset-of-2023/) Bitcoin is a vehicle for fraudsters, warns Goldman Sachs boss (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/30/bitcoin-is-a-vehicle-for-fraudsters-warns-goldman-sachs-boss) in 2017 Technology Oklo and Compass secure a 20-year commercial partnership to launch advanced fission-powered bitcoin mining. (https://compassmining.io/education/oklo-compass-fission-mining-partnership/) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin optech #235 covers ephermeral anchors (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/01/25/) 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 The goofy Bitcoin Rainbow Chart (https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/bitcoin-rainbow-chart/) Chris is watching: Peach App (https://www.peachbitcoin.com/) Peach Bitcoin: a new mobile app for private bitcoin exchange (https://bitcoin-bumblebee.com/2023/01/26/peach-bitcoin-a-new-mobile-app-for-private-bitcoin-exchange/) 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/)
Episode 60: Economic Backdoors
1/21/2023 • 1hr 13m
Pre-show Banter Peter Schif lost it all (https://archive.ph/ezKOA) in 2020 News U.S Treasury staving off liquidity problems due to debt ceiling (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-treasury-launches-debt-limit-cash-management-measures-2023-01-19/) by not paying into retirement programs Economics Paper on Cryptocurrency and Regulation (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3649475) cited by David Gerard (https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/01/15/crypto-collapse-bitcoin-goes-up-nexo-charged-gbtc-still-wants-to-be-an-etf-crypto-exchanges-struggle-ftx-voyager/) Arthur's Bouncy Castle (https://blog.bitmex.com/bouncy-castle/) - a story of markets of FED pivots Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/) Technology Multiple Linux Backdoors Discovered Targeting Bitcoin Core Developer (https://lordx64.medium.com/multiple-linux-backdoors-discovered-targeting-bitcoin-core-developer-technical-analysis-793f8491f561) — Technical Analysis Privacy TRAC is a violation of American's civil liberterties (https://archive.ph/144G5)...also an altcoin Bitcoin Education BIP 329 Wallet labels merged into bitcoin (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0329.mediawiki) Corrections Missouri Governor accuses journalist (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-governor-threatens-to-prosecute-local-journalist-for-finding-exposed-state-data/) of 'hacking' - courtesy of OptimusGray 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! 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/)
Episode 59: No Smart Money Here
1/14/2023 • 1hr 20m
News FTX Pre-Mortem Overview - SBF’s Substack (https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-pre-mortem-overview) Something in the Etherium space called Wire is insolvent (https://cointelegraph.com/news/wyre-imposes-up-to-a-90-withdrawal-limit-for-all-users) Crypto lender Nexo is getting raided (https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/01/12/crypto-collapse-dcgs-check-kiting-comes-home-to-roost-nexo-raided-voyager-sale-to-binance-progresses-unbanking-the-banked/), no one could have known! Gemini getting sued by SEC for offering unregistered securities via Geminia Earn (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/12/sec-alleges-gemini-genesis-sold-unregistered-securities/) Economics Arthur's last post about SBF (https://blog.bitmex.com/vitiligo/) relates to Gladstein's work on the IMF and Zoltan's view of Western and Asian political blocks American banker on CBDCs (https://archive.ph/6aK0Z) New CPI Changes (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/2017/methodology-changes.htm) 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! 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/)
Episode 58: New Year, New FUD
1/9/2023 • 54m
Pre-show Banter Huobi Outflows Hit $60.9M in 24hrs, Inner Turmoil Reported at Exchange (https://tokenist.com/huobi-outflows-hit-60-9m-in-24hrs-inner-turmoil-reported-at-exchange/) News Castle Island VC's 2022 in review (https://medium.com/@sean.m.judge/reasons-to-remain-bullish-after-a-year-in-crypto-hell-74d6807cc408) is bullish on institutional adoption But why do companies always invest in altcoins? What is it about bitcoin that 'frightens' them off?Untitled Episode Starbucks and Chipotle accept digital payments (https://www.theblock.co/post/149684/chipotle-will-now-accept-cryptocurrency-in-us-stores) via flexa (https://flexa.network/currencies) which doesn't support BTC Economics What is the invcentive to loan Amazon $8bn (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/03/amazon-secures-8b-loan-anticipating-market-headwinds/) at Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 57: Bitcoin, Crypto's Designated Driver
1/2/2023 • 1hr 26m
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 A year of Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the mBitcoin is still early and a crazy experiementatrix 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! 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 platforA year of m and self hostable) Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/appBitcoin is still early and a crazy experiement/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Sponsors and Acknowledgementshttps://h.docs.lol/tbEY4pKFTb2CXJy0GQetaQ?both Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 56: Bitcoin, it's cold outside...
12/26/2022 • 1hr 11m
Pre-show Banter Some FTX news (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ftx-founder-sbf-released-on-250m-bond-at-u-s-court-appearance/), drama (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/22/ex-ftx-chief-sam-bankman-fried-makes-appearance-in-us-court/) and Alameda case details here (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/22/alameda-chief-caroline-ellison-ftxs-gary-wang-plead-guilty-to-fraud-charges/) Binance money laundering accusations from the US Drug Enforcement Agency Says (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/global-drug-cartel-binance-launder-millions-crypto-exchange-dea-investigation-2022-12) Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs Binance US Agrees to Buy Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager's Assets (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/19/binanceus-agrees-to-buy-bankrupt-crypto-lender-voyagers-assets-for-over-1b/) for Over $1B Quadriga Scam bitcoins start moving (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-addresses-tied-to-bankrupt-canadian-exchange-quadrigacx-move-bitcoin/) years after founder 'died' Bitcoin miner Core Scientific filing for bankruptcy, will keep mining (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/20/bitcoin-miner-core-scientific-filing-for-bankruptcy-will-keep-mining.html) to make sure no bitcoin miner gets any relief from lower hash Turns out crypto custodian Nexo, doesn't have to give users their funds (https://www.cityam.com/crypto-exchange-nexo-users-do-not-have-unfettered-right-to-withdraw/) if they don't want to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs Craig Wright, the man who can't prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, must pay Peter McCormic's legal fees (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/craig-wright-peter-mccormack-judgement) even though he 'won' the case with a $1 judgement against McCormic Economics Lyn Alden's December Newsletter sums up the medium term (https://www.lynalden.com/december-2022-newsletter/) macro outlook of a government debt spiral Technology Paul Storcz's new drivechain company (https://layer2labs.com/#form-start) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech Year in Review (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/12/21/) is a year of development in one sitting, must read! Holiday Recomendations The Missing Crypto Queen (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-missing-cryptoqueen/id1480370173) is a must listen for bitcoiners and no-coiners alike! The Dr. Bitcoin Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dr-bitcoin-the-man-who-wasnt-satoshi-nakamoto/id1592521379) tells the Craig Wright story Pirates of sillicon valley, a great documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs) about the rise of Apple Correctionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs Casa is non-custodial, didn't mean to make it sound like a custody product 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/) 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/)
Episode 55: Bad Policy Bad Outcomes
12/18/2022 • 1hr 17m
Pre-show Banter SBF wasn't just a proponent of Effective Altruism, his career was defined by their philosophy (https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2022/charity-money-launched-sam-bankman-frieds-empire) News ECB staff threaten to strike over non-inflation adjusted wages (https://archive.ph/EXgSz) CFTC declares Etherium, Tether, and bitcoin (https://cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-declares-ether-as-a-commodity-again-in-court-filing) commodities in a bizzare aside in a legal complaint against FTX and SBF (Scam Bankrupt Fraud) This aside is likely necessary to establish CFTC jurisdiction (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631227/1/commodity-futures-trading-commission-v-bankman-fried/) Belgium has surprising reasonable regulatory guidance (https://cointelegraph.com/news/belgium-says-btc-eth-and-other-decentralized-coins-are-not-securities) regarding crypto assets but fails to identify the obfuscated centralized control of Etherium U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act (warning government PDF) (https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAAML%20Act%20of%202022.pdf) seeks to define many individual participants in bitcoin as money transmiters (https://www.coincenter.org/the-digital-asset-anti-money-laundering-act-is-an-opportunistic-unconstitutional-assault-on-cryptocurrency-self-custody-developers-and-node-operators/) It's a proposterous violation of the U.S. 1st Amendamnt and a sign that the attack on self custodial bitcoin is here (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1603084941608341509) The mainstream coverage of this unsophisticated attack on bitcoin is similarily uncritical and myopic (https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/business/elizabeth-warren-bipartisan-crypto-crackdown/index.html) Lyn's right that fundamental fights about property rights (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1603084959769661440?cxt=HHwWgMC8veDRpr8sAAAA) are coming Economics US Government interest on debt accelerating (https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1602445402657226752) per Lyn Alden's model of a government debt spiral Privacy Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules are, according to research (https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/sinweek/2022/08/31/the-perverse-impacts-of-the-anti-money-laundering-system/), an exercise in bureacratic 'ass covering' and do nothing to promote lawful economic activity or fair use of the financial system Bitcoin Education How does an etherium multisig (https://blog.keys.casa/how-casas-ethereum-wallet-works/) work? And what this tells us about bitcoin Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #230 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/12/14/) has some cool links 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/) Listener Links Ruling for rulers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs), a video 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/) 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! Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 54: Neo-Colonialism vs Bitcoin
12/10/2022 • 1hr 4m
News ECB staff threaten to strike over non-inflation adjusted wages (https://www.ft.com/content/0fab7af9-e950-43f1-b1aa-f2deeb21b34d) Economics Alex Gladstein's History of the IMF and World Bank (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries) is a bleak story of an ostensibly capitalist but practically imperialist world economic system Privacy Janine's this month in bitcoin privacy returns! (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/November_2022/) and is more like "this quarter in bitcoin privacy" 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: BitcoinLizard 50,000 sats > Chris mentioned that there are 72 Bitcoin currently locked in Lightning channels. The actual public Lightning capacity is closer to 5072 Bitcoin! This number doesn’t include private channel capacity so we can’t know the total number of Bitcoin on lightning. https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/ From: vanvroom 5789 sats great show as always. what do you guys think about the futurebit Apollo node and miner? looks cool but a little pricey Apollo BTC - A Bitcoin ASIC Miner and Desktop Class Computer running a – FutureBit LLC (https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may) The first heater that mines bitcoin (https://www.heatbit.com/) BitHeater – The World's First Bitcoin Mining Heater (https://bitcoinminingheater.com/) From: adoptingbitcoin 4,200 sats > Thank you for participating at and contributing to Adopting Bitcoin, Dad! Stoked to hear you'll come again and bring Chris with you in '23. PS: videos from the conference are available on youtube.com/@adoptingbitcoin (youtube.com/@adoptingbitcoin), cheers 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/) v
Episode 53: Scams and Spirals
12/4/2022 • 1hr 32m
Pre-show Banter Alameda Research,Sam Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, took a big hit on MobileCoin (https://www.ft.com/content/5e9dc424-aef4-4981-a4d7-e3c40e1e6085), which may have started the spiral into fraud and theft News Another crypto billionaire you've never heard of dies mysteriously (https://nitter.net/zachxbt/status/1597605409883566080#m) Crypto CEOs' and Founders' 'Sudden Deaths'—What We Do Know, What We Don't (https://www.newsweek.com/crypto-ceos-founders-sudden-deathswhat-we-do-know-what-we-dont-1763586) Third crypto boss dies after Russian billionaire's helicopter crashes (https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/29/russian-billionaire-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-another-mystery-crypto-death-17845398/) Prime Trust, a bitcoin custodian, fires its ceo & founder (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/29/crypto-services-firm-prime-trust-has-fired-ceo-tom-pageler/) They custody funds (https://help.swanbitcoin.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050513913-Who-is-Prime-Trust-) for Swan Bitcoin Revealed: The $14M mystery behind a new crypto super PAC (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/19/crypto-super-pac-campaign-finance-00026146) Economics Arthur Hayes writes the American history of racial politics (https://blog.bitmex.com/white-boy/) that contextualizes the rise of SBF Lyn Alden's November Newsletter (https://www.lynalden.com/november-2022-newsletter/) details the US Long Term Debte spiral CBDCs Sputnik Moment (https://www.lawfareblog.com/mbridge-somewhere-central-banking-having-its-sputnik-moment) leading to experiments in the wild Energy Switzerland might put bans on EVs (https://twitter.com/eadatt/status/1598401789526933504) in the midst of energy scarcity this winter Tokenomics Ankr defi project exploited for over $5 million (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ankr-defi-project-exploited) How Attackers Made $15M From Staking Platform Helio After Ankr Exploit (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/12/02/how-attackers-made-15m-from-staking-platform-helio-after-ankr-exploit/) Technology Coinbase Removed NFTs from iOS App (https://twitter.com/coinbasewallet/status/1598354820905197576) because apple is a platform monopoly Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #228 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/11/30/) Channel jamming attacks (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/channel-jamming-attacks/) explained on bitcoinops Hash Time Locked Contracts (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hash_Time_Locked_Contracts) explained on the Bitcoin Wiki HTLCs Exlained in the lightning-network-paper.pdf (https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf#page=30) Adam Gibsons Adopting Bitcoin talk on the problem of identity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckIrGXLTa0) in preventing DOS attacks 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/) 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/)
Episode 52: Spoiler Alerts
11/28/2022 • 1hr 22m
News Bitcoin craigslist alternative (https://satscrap.com/listings/submit) launches FTX bankruptcy turning into a contest between Bahammas and US (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/the-securities-commission-of-the-bahamas-confirms-they-seized-digital-assets-of-ftx/) regulators over who gets to go after FTX's assets Tokenomics MetaMask will start collecting user IP addresses (https://cointelegraph.com/news/metamask-will-start-collecting-user-ip-addresses) Technology bitcoin core v24 released (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-24.0.md) A debate about decentralization for mastadon (https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/) Privacy Alexi P still being held but now charged with moneylaundering (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/22/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-to-remain-in-jail-until-at-least-late-februrary/) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin core version 24 (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-core-v24/) released k3tan's Sparrow wallet guide is a good way to start self custody (https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/sparrow-wallet-101-self-custody-your-bitcoin) Bitcoin OpTech #227 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/11/23/) has little news, lots of information Adopting Bitcoin Recap Fediment creater Eric Sirion on comunity banking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGr8M6hB2w) with privacy by default Things aren't perfect in El Salvador (https://www.theblock.co/post/189676/how-much-bitcoin-does-el-salvador-have-good-luck-getting-an-answer) but its coming from a low bar 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/) Corrections paraparasol on Hong Kong penal code 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/)
Episode 51: Contagion? I barely knew her!
11/19/2022 • 1hr 15m
BDAPOD 051 Pre-show Banter El Salvador is DCAing the dip (https://decrypt.co/114897/el-salvador-start-buying-1-bitcoin-every-day-says-president-bukele) News On chain data shows the FTX connection to Alameda (https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1590467845175283713) Economics Japanese inflation hits 40 year high (https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Inflation/Japan-s-inflation-hits-40-year-high-as-weak-yen-fans-import-costs) Tokenomics FTX promoters are already getting hit with class action lawsuits (https://deadline.com/2022/11/tom-brady-giselle-bundchen-ftx-lawsuit-larry-david-steph-curry-crypto-1235174541/) Cory on the biggest scam in 'crypto:' a16z (https://twitter.com/coryklippsten/status/1592242420137148416) Invested in Worldcoin that stole people's eye scans (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/) Crypto.com accidentally sent 320k ETH (https://nitter.net/MikeBurgersburg/status/1591611423159111680) to an external address, only got 285k back Bitcoin cash to be legal tender in St. Kitts and Nevis (https://cryptoslate.com/st-kitts-and-nevis-to-adopt-bitcoincash-as-legal-tender-in-2023/), looks like Roger Verr has been busy Technology The slippery slope of de-decentralization in the history of email (https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/), thanks Jameson! Bitcoin Education Check out darth coin's lightning wallet guide (https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison) Bitcoin Optech #226 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/11/16/) covers new covenant types (https://merkle.fun/) and channel jamming attacks Is Muun not really a lightning wallet? (https://twitter.com/ThePeteypoo/status/1592558323618181120) Muun on Twitter: 'we use submarine swaps (https://twitter.com/MuunWallet/status/1593407404401639425)' A guide to submarine swaps (https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/btc-submarine-swaps/) on bitcoin ZeroConf debates again (https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1588230216593309701), getting BlockSize wars vibes Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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/) Feedback Self hosted budget app suggestions from Jon 1. Kresus : https://kresus.org (npm or Docker) more for Europeen people I suppose as it connects to your bank to do the sync automagically. 2. Cozy Banks : https://cozy.io/en/features/#bank Cozy is like a simplier nextcloud with a bank app integrated similar to Kresus 2. Buckets™ : https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com (client only). I like there blog, it's a couple developping it. 3. Actual https://actualbudget.com (more on github with Docker https://github.com/actualbudget/actual) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 50: Effective Scam-Truism
11/13/2022 • 1hr 25m
News FTX is insolvent (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/binance-announces-to-buy-ftx/) and Binance has declined to buy (https://twitter.com/binance/status/1590449161069268992) Lyn Alden thinks its a clownshow (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1590063257158811648) Apparently Tether escaped unscathed (https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1590170667646795776) Novograts' Galaxy Digital Reveals $76.8M Exposure Linked to FTX (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/09/crypto-finance-firm-galaxy-digital-reveals-768m-exposure-linked-to-ftx/) SBF was pumping worthless FTT (https://twitter.com/WClementeIII/status/1590355852426612736) on twitter the whole time How it went down (https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1590099676744646656) Google gives Solana its kiss of death (https://decrypt.co/113632/google-cloud-just-became-a-solana-validator) The greatest bitcoin 'hacker' in history gets his coins siezed (https://nitter.net/FractalEncrypt/status/1590004548864978944), but was he really a hacker? Read the whole glorious, sad, terrifying saga on archive.ph (https://archive.ph/99FPN) Bitcoin is dead (https://medium.com/crypto-24-7/bitcoin-is-finished-863e5370150), throw in the towel Economics Global central bankers didn't get the message: 'don't fight the FED (https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/global-central-bankers-find-little-success-fighting-us-dollar-s-record-strength-72905099) Tokenomics School yourself on crypto-ponzinomic fundamentals with Lyn Alden's piece Digital Alchemy (https://www.lynalden.com/digital-alchemy/) Arthur has some choice quotes (https://blog.bitmex.com/speechless/) from Alameda Research's pill popping CEO from 2 years ago Bitcoin Education We're doing self custody again and its all about sparrow wallet (https://sparrowwallet.com/download/) for the desktop Check out darth coin's lightning wallet guide (https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 49: Can't Stop Breaking BTCD
11/6/2022 • 49m
News Burak broke the lightning network (https://twitter.com/brqgoo/status/1587397646125260802) again and the LNsploit (https://archive.ph/u80RK#selection-242.0-242.1) team will steal your money Consensus conflict caused by maxWitnessItemsPerInput (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/1906) Burak on Twitter (https://twitter.com/brqgoo/status/1588318170821296128) Stronghold Digital trades miners to NYDIG (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/01/bitcoin-miner-stronghold-digital-completes-debt-restructuring/) for debt cancellation, check out CEO's Outfit (https://strongholddigitalmining.com/#) Economics Honkong and China's Dollar Problem (https://blog.bitmex.com/comeback/) Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63471725) Wall Street Silver on Twitter: “Inflation came from nowhere” (https://twitter.com/wallstreetsilv/status/1586742825693192192) Lyn Alden: "This takes some time to manifest, but it will be interesting (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1588332187711344640)" Bitcoin Education Validity rollups (https://bitcoinrollups.org/) and their history A meat and potatoes bitcoin optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/11/02/) bitcoin - Rust (https://docs.rs/bitcoin/latest/bitcoin/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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/) Feedback Tuur Demeiester on Stephen Molyneux's online cult (https://cryptonews.com/videos/i-was-in-a-cult-with-tuur-demeester.htm) 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 48: The Only Story You Need is Bitcoin
11/1/2022 • 54m
News CSW aka Faketoshi must pay hodlnaut's legal fees (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/20/hodlonaut-wins-norwegian-lawsuit-against-self-styled-satoshi-craig-wright/) Core Scientific on on bankruptcy watch (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/27/core-scientific-to-suspend-payments-as-cash-dwindles/) Bitcoin Mining Heat Being Used to Grow Food (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSYQuZOfPZA) Justice Department report on Digital Assets (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1535236/download%3Futm_source=substack%26utm_medium=email) (GOOGLE LINK WARNING), proposes expanding Civil Forefiture (https://archive.ph/90pfp) to make seizing bitcoin easier The infrastructure to go after bitcoin holders is being built rapidly (https://archive.ph/Om9ra) Amy Castor covers Voyager and Celsius drama (https://amycastor.com/2022/10/27/crypto-collapse-bitcoin-stagnant-selling-celsius-and-voyager-how-3ac-died/) in her newsletter Matt Levine's The Only Crypto Story You Need (https://archive.ph/1nLAW) is a deeply subversive case for bitcoin that tries to ignore its obvious conclusion Tokenomics Hanke on the Egyption Pound (https://twitter.com/steve_hanke/status/1585731561189785607), he was recently on John Stewards podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MahOuEdVw) defending neo-liberal economics Privacy Chinese spies use bitcoin for bribes (https://archive.ph/3Q6H7), but seriously, why not monero? Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #223 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/26/) is a lot of incremental updates and technical details Includes a good introduction to FROST (https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2022-10-11-frost/), a taproot multi-signature impelmentation Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 47: Interview - Malachi Salcido
10/27/2022 • 42m
Interview with Malachi Salcido Malachi's mining company (https://www.salcidoenterprises.tech/about) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Complaint Consensus
10/26/2022 • 57m
News If it wasn't obvious that 'institutional crypto' is a joke: JP Morgan hires Celcius exec? Hodlnaud defeats CSW in court and the judge basically rules 'not Satoshi' Economics The global housing bubble looks like its popping 52% of young adults in US are living with their parents amid COVID-19 | Pew Research Center Adults are living with their parents at unprecedented levels as crushing debt, a runaway housing market, and the pandemic make independence impossible | Fortune The Bank of England delivers with two great papers on economic history: Venetians...
Episode 46: Complient Consensus
10/26/2022 • 57m
News If it wasn't obvious that 'institutional crypto' is a joke: JP Morgan hires Celcius exec? (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/19/jpmorgan-appoints-former-celsius-exec-as-crypto-regulatory-policy-head-report/) Hodlnaud defeats CSW in court (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/hodlonaut-wins-defamation-case-against-craig-wright) and the judge basically rules 'not Satoshi' Economics The global housing bubble looks like its popping (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/10/21/the-most-splendid-housing-bubbles-in-canada-october-update-prices-plunge-at-fastest-pace-on-record/) Adults are living with their parents at unprecedented levels (https://fortune.com/2022/03/25/more-adults-living-with-parents-than-ever-pew-research-pandemic-covid-great-depression/) as crushing debt, a runaway housing market, and the pandemic make independence impossible | Fortune The Bank of England delivers with two great papers on economic history: Venetians, Volcker (https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/01/04/venetians-volcker-and-value-at-risk-8-centuries-of-bond-market-reversals/) and Value-at-Risk: 8 centuries of bond market reversals Global real interest rates since 1311: (https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/11/06/guest-post-global-real-interest-rates-since-1311-renaissance-roots-and-rapid-reversals/) Renaissance roots and rapid reversals Tokenomics The Slottie NFT Casion mataverse ICO based on etherium is an unregistered security offering (https://www.ssb.texas.gov/news-publications/three-state-securities-regulators-file-enforcement-actions-stop-sales-fraudulent) according to US regulators Etherium is now OFAC compliant (https://www.mevwatch.info/), validators are following their financial incentives (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/y413q8/in_the_last_24hrs_51_of_eth_blocks_were_censored/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Brazillian bank launching token on Polygon (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/19/brazils-largest-digital-lender-nubank-to-roll-out-own-token-to-70m-users-in-2023), apparently iBex Mercado already has a coin Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #222 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/19/) details the taprood LND/BTCD bug and the new replace by fee upgrades Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) A listener asked about the xen protocol (https://xensource.gitbook.io/www.xenpedia.io/about-xen/why-xen-is-unique) and I think it lives on the scam/irrelevant axis Corrections A listener pointed out that perhaps CSW's autism explains his 'bot fight' from last week The BDP apologizes if it seemed like we were mocking a disability, it was not our intention, rather we're observing the delta between the reality of CSW and what he claims to be Dad attributed the go.dev (go.dev) language as coming from Apple, it was actually Google engineers who incepted Go 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 45: Might Makes Censorship
10/15/2022 • 1hr 3m
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 Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections The US Oil boom started in West Penn with Standard Oil, then moved to Texas 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/) 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 44: Solo Semantics
10/10/2022 • 44m
News EU bans all Russian 'crypto wallets' (https://archive.ph/SBL2T), maybe? the documentation is poorly written Spiral BTC quarterly report mentions DesFemmes bitcoin mentorship program (https://archive.ph/OFEMo#selection-807.0-807.6), which I meant to bring up months ago Economics Arthur's Contagion article (https://blog.bitmex.com/contagion/) is a blow buy blow of how Yield Curve Control is here, forever, until we have a new financial system paradaigm Tokenomics Snippets is Arthur's mea culpa (https://blog.bitmex.com/snippets/) on levering up on Etherium's 'ultra sound money deflation' policy change, but he articulates a reasonable longterm bitcoin case BNB, an Etherium competitor run by Binance, froze their 'decentralized' chain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/06/binance-linked-bnb-price-falls-close-to-4-on-hack-rumors/) after a hack Flashbots, yet another Etherium centralization point, is censoring transactions (https://www.theblock.co/post/175709/flashbots-co-founder-steps-down-after-disagreements-with-team-over-censorship) Privacy Celsius just doxxed every former user (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/celsius-doxxes-all-users/) in a bankruptcy filing, the judge declined to redact user data Mulvad's online privacy guide (https://mullvad.net/en/help/first-steps-towards-online-privacy/) has good basics Bitcoin Education Serhack's analysis of the bitcoin genesis block (https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/) is educational and entertaining Was Satoshi a greedy miner (https://blog.lopp.net/was-satoshi-a-greedy-miner/) by Jameson Lopp pairs well with Serhack's article Bitcoin Optech #220 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/05/) is a big issue covering transaction relay, flow control, and more Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 43: TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc
10/7/2022 • 2hr 15m
Intro Edward Chancellor Devil Take the Hindmost (https://www.edwardchancellor.com/) Mercea Popeski's best quotes (https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1409128764903206912) courtesy of Pete Rizzo And his "former lover's" blog (https://t.co/KIflJGCVYb) News Swan aquires the company (https://archive.ph/vKD8k) behind Specter wallet (https://archive.ph/M2MWL) Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev still being held 7 weeks without charge (https://www.theblock.co/post/174016/arrested-tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-appeal-rejected) and Dutch authorities are selling his car? When Taproot? (https://whentaproot.org/) tracks taproot integration in projects and provides education to developers, bitcoin upgrades can take time to become widespread (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/segwit-adoption/) Economics A modern look at the Trinity Study (https://web.archive.org/web/20110806210437/http://www.aaii.com/journal/article/retirement-savings-choosing-a-withdrawal-rate-that-is-sustainable?utm_source=sitesearch&utm_medium=click) and what it says about human's search for monetary stability (https://web.archive.org/web/20110708072619/http://wpfau.blogspot.com/2010/10/trinity-study-retirement-withdrawal.html) The Trinity Study tried to debunk a 10% withdrawl rate, not support a 4% rate The Blues and the Greens (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics), one of Paul's favorite allegories Some detail and texture of the early 20th century gold standard (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gqn4WWvvNM) The Apple Card is worse than subprime (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/goldmans-gs-apple-card-business-has-a-surprising-subprime-problem.html), turns out making phones doesn't make you a good CC issuer? A primer on bond investing (https://www.lynalden.com/bond-investing/) from Lyn Alden as a way to think about the Privacy ErgoBTC contributes to privacy guru Michael Bazzell's pro-privacy magazine (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unredacted-4/) Speaking of Michael Bazzell, his guide on a DIY credit freeze (https://inteltechniques.com/freeze.html) is a must do for all people in the USA Software Updates Fountain podcast app now supports a queue (https://archive.ph/KbiNt) and carplay - Chris seemed to think that was important Bitcoin Education Lopp on encrypted cloud backups (https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-securely-back-up-data-to-cloud-storage/) ZeroSync - an instant blockchain syncronization proof (https://github.com/lucidLuckylee/zerosync/tree/main/docs) might allow nodes to instantly sync to the bitcoin mainchain Uses bitcoin's assumeValid (https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/03/08/release-0.14.0/#assumed-valid-blocks) flag and implements utreexo (https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo) In Bitcoin Optech #219 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/28/) Anthony Towns describes a bitcoin fork for testing soft fork proposals on Signet, useful for Drivechains? Paul discusses alternative drivechain activation methods (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/21/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Boosts Lopp's bitcoin resources (https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html) for learning about all aspects of bitcoin Paul's drive chain (https://www.drivechain.info/) resources Run a drive chain here (https://www.drivechain.info/releases/index.html) Corrections None today! 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 42: Move Fast and Break...Eggs?
9/26/2022 • 58m
News Signet Fediment instance is live (https://faucet.sirion.io/) Signet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0325) is a test network for bitcoin that is more centralized than testnet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet), making it more reliable Economics Even Japan is experiencing inflation (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/09/20/even-in-japan-inflation-begins-to-rage-after-23-years-of-true-price-stability/) and the yen has lost ~40% of it's value this year But inflation in Japan is only 3% and their currency is down 40%, maybe something else is going on (https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/09/02/its_not_just_the_japanese_who_cant_afford_to_wait_for_the_inevitable_truth_851440.html) Tokenomics Even professional altcoin market makers are getting hacked (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/wintermute-hacked-for-160-million) But it was a vanity address problem, which has also popped up on bitcoin (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3139/how-can-i-generate-a-vanity-bitcoin-address) Celsius and Voyager bankruptcy procedings (https://amycastor.com/2022/09/11/crypto-collapse-celsius-voyager-skybridge-the-liabilities-are-real-the-assets-are-fake/) are weird, FTX shows up everywhere [Crypto exchange FTX]](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/crypto-exchange-ftx-valued-at-32-billion-amid-bitcoin-price-plunge.html) achieves high private valuation in a crypto bear market Cryptocurrency exchange FTX saw its valuation swell to $32 billion in a new funding round announced Monday, highlighting continued appetite for the sector even as investors grow wary about a sharp pullback in crypto prices. The Bahamas-based company said Monday that it raised $400 million in a Series C financing round — its third fundraise in the last nine months. Bitcoin Education Jameson Lopp on the tricky logic of UTXO selection (https://blog.lopp.net/the-challenges-of-optimizing-unspent-output-selection/) K3tan's homelab (https://k3tan.com/my-home-lab) might be a good topic for discussing serious self hosting setups Check out his self-hosted bitcoin node guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kb7TobTNPI&list=PLCRbH-IWlcW2A_kpx2XwAMgT0rcZEZ2Cg) and this companion piece (https://citadels.org/a-companion-to-ketans-nodebox-guide-upgrade-your-bitcoin-node/) Bitcoin Optech goes drivechain-ey (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/21/) The surprisingly simple math (https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary) underlying the argument for monetary tail emission Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 41: If you can't beat 'em, Merge
9/19/2022 • 1hr 7m
News Economics Risk, insurance, and law enforcement. Social pressure didn't change police behavior, liability insurance (https://archive.ph/5fCfe) did The FRB of Atlanta determines that Quantitative Easing (https://www.atlantafed.org/research/publications/policy-hub/2022/07/14/11--how-many-rate-hikes-does-quantitative-tightening-equal) does almost nothing Tokenomics The World Economic Forum seems bullish on the etherium POS transition (https://archive.ph/gUeKN) from an ESG perspective So is Greenpeace (https://twitter.com/greenpeaceusa/status/1570408606180450311), who took money from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen to attack bitcoin's energy usage (https://cointelegraph.com/news/greenpeace-ripple-co-founder-campaigning-to-change-bitcoin-code) Dive into Etherium game theory and incentives with checkonchain's youtube video (https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1559224432387919873) or read a bitcoiner's guide to POS (https://scottmsul.substack.com/p/a-bitcoiners-guide-to-proof-of-stake) The ETH community response is telling (https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1559224432387919873), missrepresting the criticism Energy Nic Carter's promised annotations (https://medium.com/@nic__carter/comments-on-the-white-house-report-on-the-climate-implications-of-crypto-mining-8d65d30ec942) of the Whitehouse crypto report Bitcoin Education bitcoin metrics (http://checkonchain.com/) website Taro (https://archive.ph/5HXEe) vs drivechains (https://www.drivechain.info/), which altcoin on bitcoin project will win? Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 40: The Only Way Out is Through
9/14/2022 • 1hr 14m
News Poolin BTC mining pool suspends withdrawls (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/05/poolin-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-mining-pools-suspends-withdrawals-from-wallet-service/), likely insolvent Bitcoiner does p2p trading, turns into a business, turns into a charge for operating an unlicensed money transmission business (https://doctorbitco.in/linktree/) The case was factually misrepresented (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hbTCa2dbDwuU6T2sEXCgZ5kHh2l49ITw3jAvtS4tU4s/edit) Economics Lyn Alden's August Newsletter (https://www.lynalden.com/august-2022-newsletter/) analyzes clyces: investment, commodities, energy, and wealth itself Arthur's latest blogpost For the War (https://blog.bitmex.com/for-the-war/) echoes the capital control, commodity cycle fears of Lyn and Russell Napier Tokenomics Energy A totally not crazy economics professor reiterates that rapid decarbonization (https://archive.ph/HmyPu) is a fantasy Nordstream 1 has been shut down (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-not-resume-nord-stream-gas-flow-until-sanctions-lifted-2022-9) and the Kremlin will only start if if sanctions are lifted Gazprom getting paid in yuan (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1567116006639767555) for gas Privacy Janine's This month in bitcoin privacy (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/August_2022/#overflow) is back, and juicy, since its three months of news Bitcoin Education Umbrel scripts (https://community.getumbrel.com/t/stuck-on-new-update/2354/10) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections We were wrong, mostly, read up on how Muun Lightning Wallet is considered self-custodial? (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbbtxp/how_is_muun_lightning_wallet_considered/) 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 39: Accidentally Debunking MMT (and POS)
9/5/2022 • 1hr 22m
News Iran formalizing crypto import rules (https://archive.ph/xVNUI) while addressing concerns around crypto mining energy use Economics Zoltan Pozsar's 'War and Industrial Policy' (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/08/Zoltan-Pozsar---War-and-Industrial-Policy.pdf) suggests that the future is Chirussia versus Eumerica Kansas City Federal Reserve connects inflation and fiscal spending (https://www.kansascityfed.org/Jackson%20Hole/documents/9037/JH_Paper_Bianchi.pdf) Tokenomics Coinmetrics has a report on the etherium POS transition (https://coinmetrics.io/special-insights/ethereum-merge/) Bitcoin Education Jameson Lopp has run the numbers on bitcoin core code changes (https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-core-contributor-challenges/) and its the highest standards software project ever, we think Lyn Alden's lightning network deep dive (https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Boosts / Feedback Notes Coldcard multisignature bypass attack (https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/remote-multisig-theft-attack-on-the-coldcard-hardware-wallet/) Checkout RoboSats (https://twitter.com/RoboSats/status6/1564892599881814016) for your peer to peer no-KYC bitcoin buy8ing Contact Gary Gensler (https://www.sec.gov/contact-information/sec-directory) if you need to ask about your unregistered ICO, courtesy of big-government Corrections None today! 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 38: Legal Trollz and Staking Lulz
8/28/2022 • 1hr 16m
News Over $1m in BTC donated to hodlnaut's defense (https://twitter.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1561909677016977411) against a nuisance libel suite from Craig Wright The DefendingBTC website (https://www.defendingbtc.com/) is coordinating the defense and following case Greg Maxwell, former bitcoin core maintainer, explains the threat to developers (https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ws8wfd/starting_september_12th_in_oslo_norway_hodlonaut/ikxqxoo/) that CW's lawsuits creates A shot accross the bow for 'crypto securities' (https://archive.ph/XSqK8) by SEC chief Gary Gensler Craig Steven Wrigth doesn't have a monopoly on frivalous crypto lawsuits (https://twitter.com/atozy/status/1562206338293309440) by lying crypto touts (https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/24/bitboy-lost-his-lawsuit-the-instant-he-filed-it/) Economics The shortest recession in modern history (https://mises.org/library/forgotten-depression-1920) is mostly forgotten Arthur builds a new USD liquidity index (https://blog.bitmex.com/teach-me-daddy/) and bitcoin seems to be doing its job Jerome Powell speaks at Jackson Hole (https://youtu.be/zJ3sEeArWlw?t=102) Tokenomics The story of Barkley's bank issuing too many securities (https://archive.ph/Xz658#selection-4187.169-4187.170) shows the worst case outcome for ICOs Cobie goes through the rational of staking APEcoin (https://cobie.substack.com/p/apecoin-and-the-death-of-staking) with a straight face. What Is ‘the Merge’? - The New York Times (http://web.archive.org/web/20220826090531/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/technology/what-is-the-merge.html) Bitcoin Education Dive into bitcoin transactions (https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch06.asciidoc) courtesy of Andreas Antanopolous's book Mastering Bitcoin (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain-dp-1491954388/dp/1491954388/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=) Vbytes is a slightly different subject (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/92689/how-is-the-size-of-a-bitcoin-transaction-calculated) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections Bit boy actually is proceding with his spurious lawsuit Boosts Fiatjaf came up and he was just on the The Kevin Rooke Show (https://podverse.fm/episode/gvKtdkhhk) Some advice on wallets: Samourai Wallet (https://samouraiwallet.com/) Blockstream green (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.greenaddress.greenbits_android_wallet/) 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 37: Interview: The Dr Bitcoin Pod
8/26/2022 • 48m
Shownotes Team Faketoshi (https://mylegacykit.medium.com/team-faketoshi-and-the-helpers-4a4e24e81f43), a history of Craig Wright's claims to be Satoshi, by Arthur Van Pelt CSW's faked Satoshi signing session (https://learn.block6.tech/the-craig-wright-may-2016-signing-sessions-debacle-in-full-context-338e2b316310), by Arthur Van Pelt Arthur Van Pelt (https://twitter.com/Arthur_van_Pelt) on Twitter Mark Hunter (https://twitter.com/Twentynothing00) on Twitter Dr Bitcoin Podcast (https://anchor.fm/dr-bitcoin) and on twitter (https://twitter.com/DrBitcoinPod) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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/)
Episode 36: Going Ad Hominem
8/23/2022 • 1hr 1m
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 Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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 Corrections None today! 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 35: Interview: Jill Williamson on OFAC, Tornado Cash and SEC vs Ripple
8/18/2022 • 38m
Guest: Jill Williamson aka Crypto Mom Get in touch with Jill via her website (https://gravislaw.com/attorney/jill-m-williamson/) or linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-williamson-6409a8/) The SEC vs Ripple Ripple Case Jake Chevinsky on SEC motion denial (https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1547392864962977792) re this speach (https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418) by SEC Director William Hinman The Court Opinion (https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3mfvibgxig0vrx/Decision%20Denying%20SEC%20AC%20Privilege%20Claims.pdf?dl=0) A non-family friendly podcast has the best rundown on the ripple story (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/004-the-ripple-effect/id1534368618?i=1000503876799) Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash Protocol Jake again (https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1556709327121129474) The Tornado Cash entity has been added to OFAC's SDN list (https://coincenter.substack.com/p/us-sanction-of-tornado-cash-curtails?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Coin Center rebuttal (https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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/)
Episode 34: Insiders Always Dump
8/16/2022 • 1hr 10m
News Iran is now trading using cryptocurrency (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/iran-makes-first-import-order-using-cryptocurrency-tasnim-2022-08-09/) it's not known which one, but likely bitcoin UN warns about cryptoization risks (https://unctad.org/news/unctad-spells-out-actions-curb-cryptocurrencies-developing-countries) for developing countries Privacy SEC and CTFC proposes more self reporting for crypto hedge funds (https://archive.ph/BvxlW) OFAC sanctions Tornado Cash (https://archive.ph/jVGAd) protocol on Etherium Massive withdrawls (https://nitter.net/TheBlockRes/status/1558093591662280707) from TC despite/because of sanctions Tornado Cash Developer arrested in Amsterdam (https://archive.ph/u2Sv5) Possibly due to involvement with TC DAO Targeting developers happened faster than we thought MakerDAO Founder Calls on DAI to Drop Dollar Peg Amid Tornado Cash Fallout (https://decrypt.co/107273/makerdao-founder-dai-drop-dollar-peg-tornado-cash-usdc) Economics An explainer of Private Equity (https://www.propublica.org/article/what-is-private-equity) and inadvertently how it is a feature of peak fiat Thoughts on BlackRock? BlackRock Launches Spot Bitcoin Private Trust (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/blackrock-launches-spot-bitcoin-private-trust) One wonders how this squares with all the ESG noise they have made? BlackRock CEO Stands Firm on ESG Investing (https://www.barrons.com/articles/blackrock-ceo-fink-esg-investing-51649868290) BlackRock often credited as the "mother of ESG" How BlackRock Made ESG the Hottest Ticket on Wall Street - Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-31/how-blackrock-s-invisible-hand-helped-make-esg-a-hot-ticket) Tokenomics Insiders Always Dump (https://thebitcoinlayer.substack.com/p/insiders-always-dump) by Nik Bhatia Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #212 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/10/) considers raising the dust limit (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-July/020784.html) Chris happy to see: ● Core Lightning #5071 adds a bookkeeper plugin that provides an accounting record of movements of bitcoins by the node running the plugin, including the ability to track the amount spent on fees. The merged PR includes several new RPC commands. Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 33: All Roads Lead to Bitcoin
8/6/2022 • 1hr 5m
News Israel bans more cash transactions (https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-713354) Consistent with financial surveillance trends Israel did YYC in the 1980s Australian police to expand asset seizures to cryptocurrency (https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/police-to-get-sweeping-new-asset-seizure-powers-20220802-p5b6g5.html) Economics ECB paper ponders the holy grail (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2693~8d4e580438.en.pdf?972bbc119868c193467dc86f4a7cf706) of cross-border settlement Concludes bitcoin is not credible due to volatility and POW Somehow forgets issues inherent in fiat system SwissRE concludes that the last 14 years of financial policy have been a tax (https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/economy-and-insurance-outlook/expertise-publication-financial-repression-here-to-stay.html) on ordinary people 3.5% for housholds which means you lose 67% over 14 years 1.5% for institutional bondholders which means you lose 23% over 14 years Tokenomics Major Solana projects were the work of two brothers (https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/04/master-of-anons-how-a-crypto-developer-faked-a-defi-ecosystem/) pretending to be 11+ developers Energy Recession or not, the US is hitting the limit of available fossil fuel energy (https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-diesel-kemp/column-u-s-diesel-shortage-shows-economy-hitting-capacity-limit-kemp-idUSL1N2ZG19Z) This is a PSA that we need grown up energy policy worldwide An idea how gold fits into modern portfolio construction (https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/golden-butterfly/), it's scarcity fundamentally comes from energy Bitcoin Education Stablesats makes USD to bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/galoy-brings-us-dollars-to-bitcoin) accounts Have we ever actually explained bitcoin? (https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works) Checkout Jameson Lopp's research on metal seed backups (https://jlopp.github.io/metal-bitcoin-storage-reviews/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 32: Under the Curve
7/29/2022 • 46m
News Italy's government descends into chaos (https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/italy-mario-draghi-europe-eu-far-right) with the failure of a confidence vote for Mario Drahgi Economics Excalibur (https://blog.bitmex.com/excalibur/) is Arthur's follow up to A Samurai, A Knight, And A Yankee (https://blog.bitmex.com/samurai-knight-yankee/) El Salvador announces a debt buyback scheme (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-says-it-has-560-mln-partial-debt-buyback-2022-07-27/) Seems designed to reduce fears of defaul El Salvador's bitcoin buys in 2021 were less than 0.5% of the national budget (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/25/el-salvador-bitcoin-experiment-not-saving-countrys-finances.html) Tokenomics The SpiceDAO saga ends with a surprise privatization (https://twitter.com/KathrynTewson/status/1552117295605956608) and they might literally also be child predators (https://twitter.com/JuneSunnydale/status/1552124869260738560) Bitcoin Education Offline seed generation for lazies (https://bitcoindadpod.com/posts/offline-seedgen-for-lazies/) Learn more about seeds and key generation from lunaticoin (https://estudiobitcoin.com/do-you-trust-your-seed-dont-generate-it-yourself/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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 Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Episode 31: Interview: Kemal from Galoy
7/27/2022 • 1hr 1m
Guest Kemal Learn more about Galoy (https://galoy.io/) and their Bitcoin Banking stack (https://github.com/GaloyMoney) The Raspibolt guide (https://raspibolt.org/) that Kemal used to understand lightning and bitcoin's value proposition The Raspibolt is a 'one click option' (https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz) that achieves similar funcitonality The Galoy 'Liquidity Paper' (https://galoy.io/research-self-balancing-fee-structures-for-inbound-liquidity/) The Arthur Hayes piece on Bitmex synthetic dollars (https://blog.bitmex.com/in-depth-creating-synthetic-usd/) Say hi to Kemal on twitter @_pretyflaco (https://twitter.com/_pretyflaco) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 30: Wildly Speculative
7/25/2022 • 1hr 40m
Intro Wild speculation that @elonmusk killed #terraluna with their #Bitcoin sale at 30k, killed all the degens, What a legend 🤣 (https://twitter.com/julianhosp/status/1549907211975294977) Crypto skeptic David Gerard has a current list of exchanges with red flags (https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/07/07/crypto-collapse-exchange-troubles-binances-friends-with-machine-guns/) News Chinese citizens are emigrating but concerned about taking their wealth (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-19/xi-s-strict-covid-zero-policy-in-china-pushes-wealthy-to-leave-country?sref=CV3b9v13) with them while a collapsing real estate bubble (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/mortgage-strikes-threaten-chinas-economic-and-political-stability) that might take down the financial sector is slowing economic growth Economics Russia using dollars as unit of account but UAE dirhams as payment (https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-russia-seeking-oil-payments-india-dirhams-sources-document-2022-07-18/) The real story might be China's compounding economic decline (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62b9e19d9649156910ed385a/t/62d22f68dd30f9676a685198/1657941865563/EDU+Weekly+Dive+Money+Macro+Pro+2022-07-15+china+gdp+ip+rs+fai+unemployment.pdf) masked by the Zero-Covid policy ECB hikes rates to 0%, first raise in 10 years, but clearly not enough to tame inflation (https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/ecb-finally-join-rate-hike-club-with-big-move-agenda-2022-07-20/) While simultaneously printing money with the Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI) plan, intended to cap the rise in borrowing costs across the currency bloc as policy tightens. Tokenomics Scaramuchi's Skybridge Capital gates fund (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=anthony-scaramuccis-skybridge-capital-suspends-redemptions-from-crypto-exposed-fund) Amy Castor on the Solend Whale story (https://amycastor.com/2022/06/20/the-tale-of-a-whale-who-took-solends-money/), she's a hater but gets this story right Chainlink God's L1 Rotation Thesis (https://chainlinkgod.medium.com/the-layer-1-chain-rotation-thesis-a-retrospective-analysis-3cbd2dcdc1f8) is a good retrospective on the 2021 mania written by a degenerate altcoiner Energy Debunking Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy FUD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDhCvNFUDvo) by Ben Gagnon Chief Mining Officer of Bitfarms Privacy Chainalysis' article on mixers (https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/cryptocurrency-mixers/), cited in last week's Ars article, conflates coinjoin with mixing and is a load of nonsense Brother Rabbit, anon of the Samourai Dev Team, describes coinjoin privacy (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-bitcoin-anonymity-sets-work) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #208 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/07/20/) focuses on discussions of the inflationary (or not) effects of tail emissions (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-July/020665.html) and dealing with fee sniping (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-July/020702.html) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections Jamal Kashogi, the murdered Saudi journalist, wrote for the Washington Post, not the New York Times The S in 'PIGS' stands for Spain 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 The Adopting Bitcoin Conference (https://adoptingbitcoin.org/2022/) November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 29: Peak Griftonomics
7/18/2022 • 1hr 47m
News French wholesale CBDC iminnent (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/07/12/france-starts-second-stage-of-wholesale-cbdc-experiments-central-bank-governor-says/) Bank of Int'l Settlement's Project Jura (https://www.bis.org/publ/othp44.pdf) shows development of multinational CBDC settlement systems Conversations about the language of bitcoin (https://dergigi.com/2022/06/27/the-words-we-use-in-bitcoin/) in the context of European regulation (https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/07/21/eu-clampdown-on-bitcoin-wallets-with-new-aml-and-cft-rules/) Ars Technica doesn't understand why financial privacy is important (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/usage-of-crypto-mixers-for-stymying-blockchain-investigations-hits-all-time-high/) Increased KYC/AML, 10k Euro cash limits, unhosted wallet reguations (https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22579/eu-crypto-regulation-global-cooperation-or-competition) What bitcoin is actually doing (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-eu-attacks-bitcoin-due-to-a-comprehension-problem) is signing messages Should U.S. Government Employees who work on crypto policy be allowed to own crypto (https://www.theblock.co/post/156422/us-federal-employees-with-digital-assets-shouldnt-work-on-crypto-policy-ethics-office-warns)? Economics Exploding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-30/yuan-ruble-trading-explodes-as-america-s-rivals-rebuff-dollar) Ruble-Yuan direct exchange volumes are another nail in the coffin of the Petrodollar The Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank, is researching the effects of the bitcoin lightning network (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4142590) on blockspace demand and liquidity Tokenomics Celcius finally files for bankruptcy (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=celsius-files-for-bankruptcy), and it's a chapter 11 (https://www.theblock.co/post/157491/crypto-lender-celsius-declares-chapter-11-bankruptcy-in-new-york) meaning all depositors are getting wiped out Voyager, a bankrupt cypto lender, lent 3ac, a bankrupt degen crypto hedgefund, ~$700M and they bought a dickbutt NFT (https://twitter.com/softsimon_/status/1547341962214260736) with some of the money Also 3ac has abandoned their offices (https://decrypt.co/104871/three-arrows-capitals-headquarters-is-abandoned-and-its-founders-are-missing), looks like they're pulling a runner! Loans were used to buy stupid NFTs (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vy84rw/3ac_borrowed_millions_from_voyagerblockfi_user/) Energy Lyn Alden, a Financial Analyst, outlines a case for structurally higher energy prices (https://www.lynalden.com/the-area-under-the-curve/) for the 2020s Expensive Gasoline Keeps More Summer Drivers Off Road Than at Height of Pandemic (https://news.yahoo.com/expensive-gasoline-keeps-more-summer-181703273.html) Latest EU report on bitcoin compares bitcoin to ICE cars (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/financial-stability/macroprudential-bulletin/html/ecb.mpbu202207_3~d9614ea8e6.en.html), it's pretty bad research Bitcoin Education The OP_RETURN war (https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/) of 2014 pushed DAP development off bitcoin No concept of a neutral bitcoin network Idea of 'miss-using' transactions Bitcoin Optech #208 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/07/13/) is either really interesting or we're nerds Tunnel your home node through a VPS (https://blog.bitcoinlizard.net/2022/04/02/vps-passthrough-hosting/#more-122) courtesy of bitcoinlizard Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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/)
Episode 28: Interview - Jameson Lopp
7/12/2022 • 55m
Jameson Lopp Bitcoin as a trust anchor (https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-the-trust-anchor-in-a-sea-of-blockchains/) Jameson's views on IPOs, ICOs, and STOs (https://blog.lopp.net/shitcoins-stos/) Jameson's bitcoin educational resources (https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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/)
Episode 27: Stock to Seagulls
7/10/2022 • 58m
News Debunking the bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) model (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/why-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-is-not-useful) Embarassed to say that I didn't question it more Confirmation bias/group think is real Let's wade into Nic Carter's critique of bitcoin maximalism (https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9) and Pete Rizzo's rebuttal (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/07/04/bitcoin-maximalism-is-dead-long-live-bitcoin-maximalism/) Revisiting Rizzo's early piece on bitcoin maximalism (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/03/28/bitcoin-after-2140-differing-views-on-the-future-of-the-future-of-money/) provides context Nic has serious bitcoin chops as evidenced by his website (https://niccarter.info/) Economics Arthur's breadown of the crypto lending crash (https://blog.bitmex.com/number-three/) Doesn't dwell on the alleged fraud at 3ac Economic research paper linking ETFs to lower wages (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4113449) Tokenomics CAR is creating their own altcoin (https://www.theblock.co/post/155665/central-african-republic-launches-national-cryptocurrency-called-sango-coin?utm_source=cashapp&utm_medium=rss) based on 'tokenized natural resources', just like Venezuela Report on CAR paints a bleak picture of the country (https://bdatacenter.fr/wp-content/uploads/Report-from-the-Bitcoin-Delegation-in-the-Central-African-Republic.pdf) Privacy Hacked exchange accounts are cheaper than expected (https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2021/) on the dark web Chinese total surveillance police state apparently doesn't protect citizen data (https://twitter.com/ZeyiYang/status/1543409345815355399) particularily well Similar leak detailed how China uses surveillance to commit genocide on the Uighers (https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/) The libertarian CATO Institute report on how inflation reduces financial privacy (https://www.cato.org/blog/how-inflation-erodes-financial-privacy) CATO's 1998 newsletter (https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/policy-report/1998/1/cpr-20n1.pdf) supporting Adam Back and the cypherpunks drive for encryption and privacy Rember the clipper chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip)? Energy IAE report on nuclear energy (https://www.iea.org/reports/nuclear-power-and-secure-energy-transitions/executive-summary) suggests that momentum for new nuclear power options is building, but sufficient nuclear to meaningfully impact climate change is still far away Bitcoin Education Lopp's excellent page of lightning resources (https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html) Elizabeth's Stark's lightning network primer (https://www.coincenter.org/education/key-concepts/lightning-network/) is a good start Blockstream has a schnorr half aggregation (https://blog.blockstream.com/half-aggregation-of-bip-340-signatures/) proposal You can view it in their cross input signature aggregation (CISA) (https://github.com/ElementsProject/cross-input-aggregation) repo Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 & Apple) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) 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/)
Episode 26: Sidechains for Sandwiches v2
7/4/2022 • 1hr 25m
Pre-show Tease A fancy blog post (https://medium.com/@0xluminous/the-future-of-open-source-software-7c77592f8f24) affinity scamming with Open Source Software and bitcoin to promote a valueless project that has crashed to nothing (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/saito/) News Compass Mining CEO and CFO (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/28/compass-mining-ceo-and-cfo-resign-amid-setbacks-and-disappointments/) resign - hosted mining has always been a sh*tshow Previously lost control of customer ASICs (https://news.bitcoin.com/report-compass-to-sell-30-million-in-crypto-mining-equipment-located-in-russia/) in Russia Ruben Smonsen receives a grant (https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1542560845917462534?s=20&t=rubEinsCnq_GiznfIYOk1Q) to work on spacechains (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-bitcoin-spacechains-work) Gillebrand-Loomis Github Bill Feedback is both perceptive (https://github.com/responsible-financial-innovation-act22/RFIA-bill/issues/156) and ridiculous (https://github.com/responsible-financial-innovation-act22/RFIA-bill/issues/72) Solana labs is making a web3 mobile phone (https://solana.com/news/saga-reveal): is this a bottom or top signal? Economics A doom filled twitter thread (https://twitter.com/mattcsnow/status/1542787785832206337) sums up generally negative macro conditions Where 80% of Global Energy (https://twitter.com/JoanneNova/status/1537311144360038400) Comes From ### Tokenomics 3ac ordered to liquidate (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=three-arrows-capital-ordered-to-liquidate) by a BVI judge FTX rumored to be aquiring BlockFI for $25m (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/ftx-closes-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-embattled-crypto-lender-blockfi-for-25-million-in-a-fire-sale.html) but Zac Prince, BlockFI CEO denies this (https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1542582904110317568) Ledger adds rehypothication (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/28/ledger-live-adds-yield-earning-capability-via-alkemi-earn/) via Alchemy Earn Privacy European custodial crypto transfers (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/29/eu-finalizes-crypto-money-laundering-rules/) will be completely surveilled, but self-custody carveout remains for now Coinbase is a surveillance company helping ICE and other 3 letter agencies (https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/) perform warrentless surveillance on all their customers nokyc: A script that lists all current Bisq offers in the terminal (https://github.com/j4imefoo/nokyc) Bitcoin Education The oracle problem as shown by the Chainlink 2.0 (https://ercwl.medium.com/whats-wrong-with-the-chainlink-2-0-whitepaper-for-simpletons-d50f27049464) white paper Bitcoin Optech #206 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/06/29/) is mostly education links The largest multisig quorums (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114048/what-is-the-largest-multisig-quorum-currently-possible) per address type Bitcoin Core node block relay options (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114081/what-is-the-difference-between-blocksonly-and-block-relay-only-in-bitcoin-core) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections Mischaracterizaiton of the FTX credit line/aquisition of BlockFI Panic of 1907 callback 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 & Apple) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) 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/)
Sidechains for Sandwiches
7/3/2022 • 1hr 25m
Pre-show Tease A fancy blog post affinity scamming with Open Source Software and bitcoin to promote a valueless project that has crashed to nothing News Compass Mining CEO and CFO resign - hosted mining has always been a mess Previously lost control of customer ASICs in Russia Ruben Smonsen receives a grant to work on spacechains Gillebrand-Loomis Github Bill Feedback is both perceptive and ridiculous Solana labs is making a web3 mobile phone: is this a bottom or top signal? Economics A doom filled twitter thread sums up generally negative macro conditions Where 80% of...
Episode 25: Token Gestures
6/25/2022 • 1hr 8m
News Economics Lyn Alden's June newsletter is all about Demand Destruction (https://www.lynalden.com/june-2022-newsletter/) El Salvador’s government is gambling on bitcoin (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/06/16/el-salvadors-government-is-gambling-on-bitcoin): The Economist magazine on the problems of the Bukele Regime SBF the founder of FTX wants to be an altcoin central bank (https://decrypt.co/103319/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-has-responsibility-to-step-in-and-stem-crypto-contagion) except not really Aaaand he's providing $250m of revolving credit (https://nitter.net/BlockFiZac/status/1539216594383028224) to Blockfi Tokenomics Solend, Solana based lending protocol, wanted to steal a whale's $120m deposit, got backlash, so now want to rugpull liquidate in a different way (https://blog.solend.fi/slnd3-introduce-account-borrow-limit-19030792eb8c) Privacy DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing (https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-drops-below-100-million-searches-per-day-385835), might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue Former lead dev of Wasabi 2.0 Wallet thinks the latest release is not safe to use (https://nitter.net/mHaGqnOACyFm0h5/status/1536442355003293700) Wasabi says it's not being reckless, the release is just so great it doesn't need testing (https://nitter.net/wasabiwallet/status/1536300778461310976) We mention Bloom Filters (https://iq.opengenus.org/spvs-and-bloom-filters-in-bitcoin-protocol/), a fascinating bit of bitcoin engineering China weaponizing health screening codes (https://archive.ph/rInEJ) to crush protestors against bank account confiscations A CBDC would cut out several steps in this problem Bitcoin Education Bolt Hackathon tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/c/bolt-fun) on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning Certified Bitcoin Professional test (https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! 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) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 24: Interview: Bryan Solstin, WA Candidate for US Senate
6/24/2022 • 43m
Interview: Bryan Solstin Bryan's campaign website (https://solstin.org/) Follow Bryan on twitter (https://twitter.com/BryanBSolstin/) @BryanBSolstin Bryan's podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solstin-org-podcasts/id1624295120) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 23: Bulls, Bears, and Pigs
6/20/2022 • 1hr 58m
Pre-show Support the show by providing some inbound liquidity to our lightning node 02cbf971eb8b827099f3eae47ab2a7d8174fbfaef6a1357115ab7d81a545f6c900@2nkaxx55mc6mh4vdwh3eygtyt2hjyxh3vm7ge5lq5ryy2exvt2hdijyd.onion:9735 Welcome to the Bear Market If bitcoin is dead...why is the federal reserve doubling down on their FedNow (https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-powell-us-digital-dollar-could-help-maintain-international-primacy-2022-06-17/) CBDC bitcoin clone? Hilarious video (https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/prepare-for-fednow/watch-get-ready-fednow-video) touting its benefits The US White House is also doubling down on CBDCs (https://www.meritalk.com/articles/white-house-placing-urgency-on-cbdc-research/) Centralized solutions enable MORE monetary policy, not less, delaying the debt crisis (https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-powell-us-digital-dollar-could-help-maintain-international-primacy-2022-06-17/) Reading list for the Bear Market Mastering Bitcoin (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mastering+bitcoin+antonopoulos&qid=1655709032&s=books&sprefix=mastering+bit%2Cstripbooks%2C182&sr=1-1) by Andreas Antonopolus Programing Bitcoin (https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Bitcoin-Learn-Program-Scratch/dp/1492031496) by Jimmy Song Grokking Bitcoin (https://www.amazon.com/Grokking-Bitcoin-Kalle-Rosenbaum/dp/1617294640/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=grokking+bitcoin&qid=1655709080&s=books&sprefix=grokking+bit%2Cstripbooks%2C170&sr=1-1) is less technical, more like a comic A hands on course for using a bitcoin node (https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/01_0_Introduction.md) from the command line News Congressional Research Service releases a paper describing current stablecoin regulatory frameworks (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10753) and a followup that outlines the regulatory options (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10754) Jack Mallers gives a great interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKa1fzEKr4) with Business Insider and they don't publish it Great response to every piece of FUD thrown at bitcoin, train up for no-coiner debates Economics Lyn Alden details the European Central Bank's monetary trap (https://www.lynalden.com/ecb-trapped/) The Federal Reserve's Plan was a recession all along (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/06/15/fed-stops-dillydallying-so-ok-maybe-no-softish-landing-markets-on-their-own/) Cisco is a tech canary, when they freeze hiring (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/cisco_dials_back_on_hiring/) it's a red flag Tokenomics Celsius network halts withdrawls, appears insolvent (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/celsius-halts-bitcoin-withdrawals-what-went-wrong) and poised to take down other stealth crypto hedgefunds and lenders like 3ac (https://nitter.net/Danny8BC/status/1537224378554806272#m) Who could have known that the NBA would create huge numbers of NFTs (https://www.theverge.com/23153620/nba-top-shot-nft-bored-ape-yacht-club) to satsify demand for Top Shots, tanking their price? Lyn's post-mortem of the vurrent crypto crash (https://www.lynalden.com/digital-alchemy/) is also required reading to undrestand why all the alts go down and how that doesn't affect bitcoin's value proposition Arthur Hayes latest blog post (https://blog.bitmex.com/floaters/) is a mix of failed predictions and an attempt to pump his DEX bags Privacy DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing (https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-drops-below-100-million-searches-per-day-385835), might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue Bitcoin Education A list of bitcoin privacy proposals (https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/) by Seth for Privacy Certified Bitcoin Professional test (https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/) Bolt Hackathon tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/c/bolt-fun) on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) Corrections None today! Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 22: Interview: Crypto Mom, Attorney at Law
6/18/2022 • 1hr 8m
Crypto didn't, for reasons we all understand, crypto didn't act like a traditional industry, so instead of taking that time to come into compliance, crypto said 'hold my bear, watch me DeFi' - Jill H. Williamson, a.k.a Crypto Mom Shownotes Get in touch with Jill via her website (https://gravislaw.com/attorney/jill-m-williamson/) or linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-williamson-6409a8/) Sec charges (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-147) Poloniex Exchange for unregistered asset trading Washington State charges Celsius for operating an unregistered money service (https://dfi.wa.gov/enforcement-actions?combine=celsius&field_cs_enforcement_act_tid=All&field_date_entered_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=) business Celsius' Terms of Use (https://celsius.network/terms-of-use) indicate they are aware that their products are likely notes or securities There is ample legal precedent (https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2349&context=mlr) to define notes, or lending, as securities The DAO Report (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131) is required reading for understanding the SEC's view on digital assets as securities Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 21: Bitcoin Bill or Altcoin Shill?
6/13/2022 • 1hr 33m
News Lumis & Gillibrand's massive crypto bill (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/heres-whats-in-senator-lummis-bitcoin-bill) is probably not going anywhere soon but interesting: Definite Altcoin carvouts: allows altcoins to register as 'ancillary assets' (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/07/key-us-senators-introduce-bill-outlining-sweeping-plan-for-future-crypto-rules/) CFTC Chair wants BTC to become POS (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/climate-advocate-cftc-chair-wants-to-change-bitcoin) Human rights activists pen letter to congress (https://www.financialinclusion.tech/) in epic response/troll to last weeks 'concerned technologist's' letter (https://concerned.tech/) Gary Kasparov, Navalny's org, Nigerian feminists and Gladstein PayPal enables crypto payments (https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2022-06-07-PayPal-Users-Can-Now-Transfer-Send-and-Receive-Bitcoin-Ethereum-Bitcoin-Cash-and-Litecoin) Their explanations of 'crypto' are not terrible Head of MIT digital currency initiate (https://www.ted.com/talks/neha_narula_the_future_of_money?subtitle=en) consulted How did they decide on BTC, BCH, LTC, and ETH? BCH and LTC are not top 10 coins New York Times article questions bitcoin's decentralization (https://nyti.ms/3PX8juC) Non-peer reviewed paper makes pretty benign claims (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02871.pdf) Takes simple facts about bitcoin out of context Comment section is heartening, much more sophisticated than in the past PSA: CryptoKyle identifies Cold Card bag problem/potential avenue for supplychain attack Economics US Treasury Secretary Yellen denies that fiscal policy (https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/us-faces-unacceptable-levels-of-inflation-yellen-tells-senators-122060701239_1.html?utm_source=SEO&utm_medium=SP) has driven inflation up Argument that inflation is everywhere so it couldn't be US fiscal policy alone Energy Chelan County creates rate 36 (https://decrypt.co/102420/bitcoin-miners-will-see-29-rate-hike-hydroelectric-power-washington) for cryptominers but it's not clear why (https://www.kpq.com/bitcoin-miners-to-start-paying-higher-cost-for-energy-use-in-chelan-county-in-july/) Chelan County PUD Commissioner Garry Arseneault is the new President of the Washington Public Utility Districts Association. Washington state accounted for 4% of the whole U.S. hashrate in December close by Douglas County has stopped permitting new Bitcoin miners to arrange operations there as a result of they already eat 25% of the county’s obtainable vitality. Salcido can maintain his Chelan facility on the decrease, high-density vitality fee if he processes information as a substitute of mining crypto. The info processing makes use of the identical quantity of energy as crypto mining, he instructed the Wenatchee World. "Do you really want to be in the business of regulating what kind of processing happens on servers in your territory," Salcido said. Privacy Norwegian statistics burea wants to track all supermarket purchases (https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket-purchases/) Bitcoin Education A list of bitcoin privacy proposals (https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/) by Seth for Privacy Output descriptors (https://outputdescriptors.org/) as recomended by bitcoinlizard Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Corrections None today! Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Bitcoin Bill or Altcoin Shills?
6/13/2022 • 1hr 39m
NewsLumis & Gillibrand's massive crypto bill (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/heres-whats-in-senator-lummis-bitcoin-bill) is probably not going anywhere soon but interesting:Definite Altcoin carvouts: allows altcoins to register as 'ancillary assets' (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/07/key-us-senators-introduce-bill-outlining-sweeping-plan-for-future-crypto-rules/)Stablecoin regulationTiny tax-free cash carve out $200Disclosure requirements for ICOsLet's wait and see, but bipartisan support is tellingCFTC Chair wants BTC to become POS (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/climate-advocate-cftc-chair-wants-to-change-bitcoin)Human rights activists pen letter to congress (https://www.financialinclusion.tech/) in epic response/troll to last weeks 'concerned technologist's' letter (https://concerned.tech/)Gary Kasparov, Navalny's org, Nigerian feminists and Gladsteinwebsite is a copy, lolPayPal enables...
Episode 20: Be water, my friend, not exit liquidity
6/4/2022 • 1hr 0m
News Anti-bitcoin personality promotes anti-crypto lobbying letter (https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1531920908696358912): “The computational power is equivalent to what you could do in a centralised way with a $100 computer,” said de Icaza. “We’re essentially wasting millions of dollars’ worth of equipment because we’ve decided that we don’t trust the banking system.” Turns out he works for a private blockchain (https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/1470126927818067969) company that ripped off its name (https://web.archive.org/web/20180213200210/https://www.adjoint.io/) from the best hacking game of the 2000s (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/) That said, most crypto lobbying is for altcoins Why many successful people dismiss bitcoin (https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin) Ubuntu-Mate is still taking bitcoin donations (https://ubuntu-mate.org/funding/) New York State prepares legislation to ban bitcoin mining (https://archive.ph/zuF4E) and it sort of matters Economics Arthur's latest article (https://blog.bitmex.com/shut-it-down/) ties together inflation, FED policy, and market's appetite for risk assets The In Gold We Trust Report (https://ingoldwetrust.report/igwt/?lang=en) SEC goes after NFT insider trading (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine?cmpid=BBD060222_MONEYSTUFF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=220602&utm_campaign=moneystuff) Tokenomics The Hex Spam King (https://bitcoinnews.com/richard-heart-spam-king/) is offering 40% APY on your investments 1.3M Etherium transactions failed in May (https://cryptopotato.com/over-1-2-million-ethereum-transactions-failed-in-may/) and this is expensive (https://blockchair.com/ethereum/transactions?s=fee(desc)&q=failed(true),time(2022-05-01..2022-05-31)#f=failed,gas_used,block_id,fee,fee_usd,gas_price,time,internal_value) Weird video of a video of Vinay Gupta claiming Etherium exists to monetize (https://twitter.com/NerdNationUnbox/status/1478826236432560134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1480303037973364736%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoinnews.com%2Fwhen-it-comes-to-crushing-shitcoiners-cory-klippsten-is-king%2F) the presale whale's holdings Vinay has an odd "physical blockchain" product called matterum (https://mattereum.com/) Privacy Seth's list of bitcoin privacy improvement technologies (https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/) Ledger no longer supports (https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017551659?docs=true) running your own bitcoin node Bitcoin Education This week's bitcoin optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/06/01/) Thinking about the progressive case for bitcoin (https://theprogressivecaseforbitcoin.medium.com/bitcoin-the-network-is-neutral-its-network-effect-must-not-be-39804881a272) Block [report](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/127723/the-block-research-2021-digital-asset-outlook-report on global bitcoin adoption Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Consider joining the Jupiter Broadcasting Bitcoin Room (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) for general discussion or the questions room (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin-questions:jupiterbroadcasting.com) if you have pressing questions that need answering Corrections None today! Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 19: The birds and the CBDCs
5/29/2022 • 1hr 40m
News Economics Circle doesn't want (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05/25/circle-asks-us-fed-not-to-step-on-its-toes-by-launching-a-digital-dollar/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines) CBDC competition The American Banking Association recognizes that a CBDC would kill the current banking system (https://www.aba.com/advocacy/policy-analysis/aba-comments-on-fed-discussion-paper-money-and-payments) Savings rates fall in the USA (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT) amid increasing economic uncertainty Russia is already thinking about cryptocurrency (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL5N2XJ35C) for international transfers CryptoVoices global monetary base (https://nitter.net/crypto_voices/status/1527572272613142528) report is out! Tokenomics High speed blockchains economically centralize (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/113505/how-would-faster-blocks-cause-mining-centralization) according to Murch Energy US Power grid may fail (https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypnja/majority-of-us-power-grid-at-risk-of-failure-this-summer-report-warns) this summer California Warning Alarms since 2018 about hydro (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2329-5) 58% of the state's natural gas units have been retired since 2015, amounting to 6,500 megawatts of generating capacity. California and the West face likely power outages this summer (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/27/california-west-drought-electricity-grid-outages) NERC sounds alarm on solar tripping in 'sobering' summer reliability report (https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nerc-summer-reliability-report-west-miso-ercot/624043/) California Water Usage in Crops, and the Water Value of Almonds (https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2015/04/21/california-water-usage-in-crops-and-the-water-value-of-almonds/) Privacy German officials agitating to ban telegram (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/politician-says-germany-should-ban-telegram-unless-it-tackles-extremist-content-2021-12-14/) Guide to P2P bitcoin (https://thebitcoinmanual.com/buying-btc/dex/) exchanges Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech focuses on package relay (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/05/25/) ... which might be the perfect BIP Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Boosts Wallets Recovery (https://walletsrecovery.org/) for help recovering wallets from seed phrase Corrections None today! Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 18: Cynically Saving the Children
5/22/2022 • 1hr 32m
News Sweet infographic shows who funds (https://whofundsbitcoin.com/) bitcoin development Tokenomics The Problem of Etherium (https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/the-problem-with-ethereum-af9692f4af95) explains the changing promises of Etherium in the context of a society with class structure Ties in nicely with Vitalik's latest cry for help (https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1526378787855736832) How sweet (and brief) it is to be a top 10 coin (https://twitter.com/ChartsBtc/status/1527785631643865088) Energy New CCAF report on bitcoin mining (https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/bitcoin-mining-new-data-reveal-a-surprising-resurgence/) has some surprising(?) opinions Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index Change Log (https://ccaf.io/cbeci/change_log) Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave Isn’t a Good Sign | The Drive (https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-asks-texan-owners-to-limit-charging-due-to-heat-wave) Privacy This Month in Bitcoin Privacy (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/April_2022/) is back! Powerfull edition, great discussion of financial surveillance Details CBDC incentives are completely anti-privacy Start your own local trading group (https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2022/03/14/how-to-create-your-own-crypto-trading-group/) EU plans to 'save the children' by abolishing online privacy (https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam/) Seattle Bitcoin (Seattle, WA) | Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/seabtc) Bitcoin Education 200th edition of bitcoin optech is out! (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/05/18/) OP_CAT could enable recursive bitcoin covenants - protocol work is really hard! Rusty Russell proposed an OPTX opcode to replace Jeremey Rubin's OPCTV. His proposal is more extensible and has all of the benefits of OP_CTV Corrections Gary Gensler: crypto exchanges trading against (https://news.yahoo.com/sec-chair-gary-gensler-takes-184814025.html) their customers, also, water still wet -> this was a broad characterization is probably wrong for some exchanges like Kraken PSA - Umbrel is insecure (https://hideme.software/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Some tips on running a full node: Lopp's guide to bitcoin and tor (https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-run-bitcoin-as-a-tor-hidden-service-on-ubuntu/) setup K3tan's excellent ubuntu nodebox guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx_mLXISrfM) A docker node option I haven't tried (https://ezno.de/) Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 17: Stablecoin Alchemy
5/15/2022 • 1hr 9m
Economics Why are all financial markets down? Tokenomics How to make $800 million (https://onchainwizard.substack.com/p/how-to-make-800m-in-crypto-soros?s=r) breaking LUNA Surprise, surprise! Do Kwon the Terra founder is a serial altcoiner (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/05/11/usts-do-kwon-was-behind-earlier-failed-stablecoin-ex-terra-colleagues-say/) involved in several failed projects Other alt-coin/algo-coin constructions like neutrino (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/05/11/crisis-in-terras-ust-stablecoin-spreads-to-neutrino-usd-on-waves-protocol/) are also crashing based on this broad panic Arthur's take on stablecoins (https://blog.bitmex.com/luna-brothers-inc/) Bitmex's history of stablecoins (https://blog.bitmex.com/a-brief-history-of-stablecoins-part-1/) Energy Norwegian mining ban is reversed (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/norway-votes-against-bitcoin-mining-ban) Sponsored by the Norwegian Communist party, wants non-market energy policy > Ordinary households, companies and the public sector pay an electricity tax of $2.51 per kilowatt hour, the industry has a reduced electricity tax of around $0.07 per kilowatt hour. Bitcoin Education See Episode 16: Stablecoin Alchemy (https://bitcoindadpod.fireside.fm/16) Corrections We were wrong about mining pool decentralization: it's more centralized and it's ok (https://mempool.space/mining) Cut off Bullish-on-sats boost from last week: > The lightning.video discussion got me thinking. What if my cloud provider, e.g., Linode, could present me with a Lightning invoice daily or weekly, instead of charging a credit card monthly? I’m not sure it’s as compelling a use case as paying for bits of media content, but I’m interested in your thoughts. Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Boosts Mentioned CoinOS (https://github.com/coinos/coinos-server) as a potential solution to hosting wallets for the family Tourquoise Fox mentioned bitcoin optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/) to keep track of bitcoin development Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 16: Deep Dive - Starting Self Custody and Your First Wallet
5/14/2022 • 37m
Getting bitcoin off Exchanges Habits Fast off exchange Rehypothification Custody risk (https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-users-transfer-crypto-cold-hardware-wallets-2022-5) Slow on cold storage Wallets Bitcoin.orgs wallet selector (https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet) Another pretty good guide to mobile bitcoin wallets (https://bitcoiner.guide/wallet/mobile/) Guide to desktop wallets (https://bitcoiner.guide/wallet/desktop/) The Exodus Wallet (https://www.exodus.com/) for those of you who are doing bitcoin + altcoins Printable sheets for writing out your wallet seed (https://bitcoiner.guide/backup.pdf) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Join the Jupiter Broadcasting bitcoin (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) channel using element messenger (https://element.io/get-started) Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 15: Interview: Seth for Privacy
5/10/2022 • 1hr 8m
Pre-Show Thoughts Seth's recommended tools (https://optoutpod.com/posts/recommended-tools/) page is quite brilliant Notes from interview A history of cryptonote (https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/90/what-is-known-about-the-creation-and-history-of-the-cryptonote-protocol) by Murch! Monero's stealth address (https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/stealthaddress.html) technology explained Paynyms (https://samouraiwallet.com/paynym), a private public bitoin address courtesy of the Samourai Devs (https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/) Seth says 'silent addresses' but he means 'silent payments', a bitcoin privacy proposal (https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8) by our favourite Bitcoin Sourcer, Ruben Somsen! Nymnet with Harry Halpin was one of my favorite OptOutPod interviews (https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s2e05-nym/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 14: Can't spell stagflation without oil and gas
5/8/2022 • 1hr 29m
Pre-show Tease The Roblox saga continues News Mainstream Funny Verge article laughs at various flavors of bitcolin maximalism (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23042819/bitcoin-2022-miami-beach-conference-maxis) at Bitcoin 2022 Warren attacks Fidelity plan to add bitcoin to 401k(k) plans (https://archive.ph/zCH9N) Economics Economics Mini-Series: Three articles to grok the current monetary and energy transition Lyn Alden's epic What is money? (https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/) condenses 5000 years of monetary history into a half hour read Understand previous monetary transitions so the current one doesn't surprise you >The Swiss dropped their gold standard when I was twelve years old, which was six years after Amazon was founded, and three years before Tesla was founded. The fiat/petrodollar standard is only four times older than bitcoin, and only two times older than the first internet browser. That’s pretty recent when you think about it like that. Lyn Alden's Investing during stagflation (https://www.lynalden.com/investing-during-stagflation/) The last 20 years of low interest rates are bad experience for understanding high interest rate/high inflation investing Arthur Hayes' Doom Loop (https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-doom-loop-161a42bbcd50) is worth a second read, plays out the trades that lead to million dollar bitcoin Government Debt Spiral + energy crisis = YCC High inflation US, Breakup of EU, China divests dollars into energy, gold, btc? China's savings is a big problem Energy Chris can finally stop caring about energy misinformation and just hand out Lyn's bullish energy market forecast (https://www.lynalden.com/oil-and-gas/) Febuary story about the failure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0gbisTsj2w) of Spain's solar subsidy program Tokenomics Lyn Alden took the time to quantify how much volatility it will take to break the TERRA-LUNA peg (https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1520752169623998468) and how selling bitcoin reserves could trigger a market crash Solana needs another restart (https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1520508697100926977), POS is going great! NFT activity is flatlining (https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nft-sales-have-declined-92-since-their-peak/) surprising no one who took 10 minutes to think about the fundamentals of 'non-fungible tokens' HINT: the key is 'non-fungible' See the raw data here (https://nonfungible.com/market-tracker?days=7) Bitcoin Education A boost suggest we look into open timestamps (https://opentimestamps.org/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter See on-chain bitcoin activity using Glassnode (https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=Entities&m=entities.NewCount) Sell files on lighting with agora (https://agora-org.github.io/agora/) Bitcoin KPIs (https://www.bitcoinkpis.com/) provides free on chain data about the bitcoin network See up to date mining pool data with the mempool.space (https://mempool.space/mining) mining dashboard Corrections None today! Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Can't spell stagflation without oil and gas
5/8/2022 • 1hr 29m
Pre-show TeaseThe Roblox saga continuesNewsMainstreamFunny Verge article laughs at various flavors of bitcolin maximalism (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23042819/bitcoin-2022-miami-beach-conference-maxis) at Bitcoin 2022Warren attacks Fidelity plan to add bitcoin to 401k(k) plans (https://archive.ph/zCH9N)EconomicsEconomics Mini-Series: Three articles to grok the current monetary and energy transition Lyn Alden's epic What is money? (https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/) condenses 5000 years of monetary history into a half hour readUnderstand previous monetary transitions so the current one doesn't surprise you>The Swiss dropped their gold standard when I was twelve years old, which was six years after Amazon was...
Episode 13: Interview: Capitalist Dog from Lightning.page
5/4/2022 • 1hr 11m
Links Hosting video (https://lightning.video/) on the bitcoin lightning network The demo lightning.page (https://lightning.page/tcUUzRkyzXYhIZQbmopiCLREyZ_kQJqQ-C4XesecOm4.GX1Dv-eGcfKuOPobBK9Q-Sc-o697XgVCQzOCfqfimIo) social layer built on lightning The project mainpage and resources (https://shockwallet.app/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 12: Bitcoin Core is not Bitcoin
4/30/2022 • 1hr 40m
News New version of Bitcoin Core (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2022-April/000111.html) has been released Proof of Stake has already centralized (https://www.suresats.com/post/ethereum-s-centralization-dilemma-through-lido-staking) Etherium 2.0 validation Bitcoin is not a store of value (https://www.suresats.com/post/bitcoin-is-not-a-store-of-value)...yet CAR adopts bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/the-central-african-republic-adopts-bitcoin-as-legal-tender) but it's not super clear what that means Jeremey Rubin shakes the tree with a speedy trial soft fork (https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2022/04/17/next-steps-bip119/) proposal for OPCHECKTEMPLATE_VERIFY 7 Theses on a next step for BIP-119 · Jeremy Rubin (https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2022/04/17/next-steps-bip119/) BIP-119 bproposes adding covenants (https://utxos.org/) to bitcoin Bitmex has a great explanation (https://blog.bitmex.com/op_ctv-summer-softfork-shenanigans/) of the poposal Andreas made a video critical of the activation method (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO5BwXFyCIQ) The creator, Jeremy Rubin, describes some potential use cases (https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/01/30/jeremy-rubin-3.html) in detail on the ChainCode podcast Jeremy explains his thoughts on bitcoin development in a blog post (https://www.vice.com/en/article/epx3q7/fort-worth-texas-to-mine-bitcoin-in-city-hall-after-trade-group-donation) Forth worth to mine bitcoin (https://www.vice.com/en/article/epx3q7/fort-worth-texas-to-mine-bitcoin-in-city-hall-after-trade-group-donation) in the city hall after a donation Paper on the El Salvador bitcoin experiment (https://www.davidargente.com/_files/ugd/b05023_7825615207654784864b4c4cc4ec6550.pdf) from Stacker.news (https://stacker.news/items/23418) Add read This episode of the Bitcoin Dad Pod is brought to you by the Self-Hosted Show from Jupiter broadcasting. The self hosted show is a podcast about running your own digital infrastructure and having fun while doing it! Host your own media server, control your home iot devices with a rasberry pi, and get endless excuses to buy more electronic toys!The self hosted show will give you ideas, guidance and a fun community to experiment with running way too many computers at home! Check it out at selfhosted.show or search for self hosted show in your podcast app. Bitcoin Education Next Bitcoin Core PR Review Club is scheduled (https://bitcoincore.reviews/24584) Upstream data home mining with a sound dampening box guide (https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/coldcard-blackbox/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Corrections None today! Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 11: Side Talk Spectacular
4/24/2022 • 1hr 53m
News Crypto schadenfreude: yes, most DAOs are just a convenient structure for scamming (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/14/olympusdao-co-founder-doxxed-lawsuit-claims-to-unmask-apollo/) Turkey bans cryptocurrency (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/turkey-bans-cryptocurrency-payments-saying-risks-are-too-great) for transactions Matt Levine's breakdown of the Terra-Luna (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-19/the-stability-of-algorithmic-stablecoins) peg and Ponzinomic strategy Last year he broke down the IRON-TITAN stablecoin failure (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-17/titanium-got-crushed?sref=1kJVNqnU) which is illuminating as to the weaknesses of a two coin system IMF's Global Financial Stability Report (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/imf-publishes-global-financial-stability-report-discussing-bitcoin?utm_source=Bitcoin+Magazine&utm_campaign=6197e3f14c-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f7d45fbb67-6197e3f14c-357178061&mc_cid=6197e3f14c&mc_eid=c067dcb913) is almost an add for bitcoin Ukraine's Central Bank Bans Crypto Purchases in Local Currency (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/22/ukraines-central-bank-bans-crypto-purchases-in-local-currency/) Israel Adds Yuan to $206 Billion Reserves in ‘Philosophy’ Change (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-20/israel-adds-yuan-to-206-billion-reserves-in-philosophy-change) Israel's central bank adds the Chinese yuan and three other currencies to its $206 billion reserves, reducing the allocation for the dollar and the euro. To accommodate the changes, the euro’s share will fall to 20% -- the lowest in at least a decade -- from just over 30%, while the dollar will account for 61%, down from 66.5%. The pound’s weighting, by contrast, will almost double to 5%, returning to a level last seen in 2011. The greenback’s share, by contrast, has fallen to the lowest since 1995 Bitcoin Education Taro is the new color coin (https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-4-5-taro-launch/) protocol from lightning labs Color coins have existed for a while on bitcoin, but this protocol seems stablecoin focused Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter stacker news (https://stacker.news/) Corrections We never actually explain why the mempool cleared in 2021: batching transactions by exchanges, segwit, and lightning Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 10: Cross Input Monetary Death Cult
4/17/2022 • 1hr 20m
Intro The Classic GM Motorhome (https://www.sirumvintagegmc.com/the-story-of-the-classic-gmc-motorhome) comes up News Submit a comment on bitcoin's energy usage (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/25/2022-06284/request-for-information-on-the-energy-and-climate-implications-of-digital-assets) to the Biden administration Fascinating infographic on how Americans have weird preceptions (https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population) about reality Bitcoin ownership is surprisingly less centralized (https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/treasuries/) than the ownership of the US stock market (https://ritholtz.com/2020/01/stock-ownership/) The prize for worst FED vice-chair nomination (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/15/biden-nominates-former-ripple-adviser-barr-as-top-us-fed-regulator/) ever goes to Michael Barr, formerly of Ripple Blackrock goes from bitcoin is a 'money laundering index' to all in-ish (https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/04/13/blackrocks-newest-investment-paves-the-way-for-digital-assets-on-wall-street/?sh=60767cb85b6d) Lebanon confiscates foreign currency accounts (https://cryptonews.com/news/another-case-for-bitcoin-as-lebanon-reportedly-targets-depositors-fiat.htm) surprising no one Unfortunately, things in El Salvador aren't going great (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/28/el-salvador-invokes-state-of-emergency-after-62-killings-in-a-day) Bukele didn't show up (https://twitter.com/TheBitcoinConf/status/1511751005377073154) at Bitcoin2022 The Bitcoin Bond issue has been postponed till September (https://www.reuters.com/technology/el-salvador-postpones-bitcoin-bond-issue-expects-better-conditions-2022-03-22/) but Bukele call's conerns FUD (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/24/el-salvadors-bukele-shoots-down-fud-on-bitcoin-bond-takes-issue-with-us-lawmakers/) A skeptical podcast talks to two El Salvadorians (https://anchor.fm/cryptocriticscorner/episodes/We-Need-to-talk-about-El-Salvador-Feat--Mario-Gmez-and-Oscar-Salguero-e1gbomt) on the wrong side of Bukele Perhaps the US Seneate report of El Salvador (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/23/us-senate-to-consider-bill-examining-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment/) will provide better data on the state of bitcoin in the country Strike Partners With Shopify, Blackhawk, and NCR (https://medium.com/coinmonks/strike-partners-with-shopify-blackhawk-and-ncr-to-bring-bitcoin-lightning-payments-to-merchants-a05a1ff3236f) to Bring Bitcoin Lightning Payments to Merchants Add read This episode of the Bitcoin Dad Pod is brought to you by the Self-Hosted Show from Jupiter broadcasting. The self hosted show is a podcast about running your own digital infrastructure and having fun while doing it! Host your own media server, control your home iot devices with a rasberry pi, and get endless excuses to buy more electronic toys!The self hosted show will give you ideas, guidance and a fun community to experiment with running way too many computers at home! Check it out at selfhosted.show or search for self hosted show in your podcast app. Bitcoin Education Murch musing on the blockspace savings of Cross Input Signature Aggregation (https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1513525429994409999?cxt=HHwWnsCy1YHXj4EqAAAA) What is CISA (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/106241/what-is-cross-input-signature-aggregation-and-how-would-it-work/107068#107068)? Good question, lol :P Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter For help re-creating a wallet try walletsrecovery.org (https://walletsrecovery.org/) Don't be the guy who runs an unregistered money transmitters service (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-york-man-charged-with-running-illegal-bitcoin-atms-in-laundromats-to-help-criminals-launder-money-11649866635) Corrections None today! Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 9: Maximal Critique
4/11/2022 • 52m
News Criticism: Internal and External Pete Rizzo's latest article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/03/28/bitcoin-after-2140-differing-views-on-the-future-of-the-future-of-money/) is a thoughtful summary of the three main narratives of bitcoin maximalism Currently tether is an important humanitarian tool (https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1473409024540360705) which challenges the 'bitcoin fixes this' narrative of 3rd world finance The Cannadian government's sanctions of the Ottowa truckers (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/28/trucker-crypto-crackdown-in-canada-fuels-gop-backlash-in-u-s-00011401) suggest that 1st world surviellance states may be able to supress some aspects of subversive bitcoin usage A critique on NFTs that begins with a somewhat lazy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g) attack on bitcoin but is generally correct in it's critique of financial grifters pushing DeFi, WEB3, and NFTs Why do narratives like this appeal to no-coiners like Ezra Klein (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-dan-olson.html)? Privacy News A deeper look at Rohan's ECASH act (https://ecashact.us/#hardware) and why the Bitcoin Dad supports it, but is concerned about its limitations The act has a fascinating research section (https://ecashact.us/#privacylinks) Coincenter has researched the necessity of anonymous cash for an open society (https://www.coincenter.org/the-case-for-electronic-cash/) as well Cash App gets hacked (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/block-cash-app-data-breach) and containg ~8 million customers, inside job Moxie (rightly) takes down the false privacy assumptions of Telegram (https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/moxie/status/1474067549574688768) But what are the trade offs of Signal? Protonmail + Simplelogin? *Chef's kiss Bitcoin Education Even Vitalik thinks ETH doesn't really work (https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/03/29/road.html) Bitcoin 2022 Conference Open Source Stage (https://noderunners.network/en/media/podcasts/bitcoin-magazine/open-source-stage-day-2-bitcoin-2022-in-miami/46140) has great technical discussion The Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (https://bitcoincore.reviews/) is a way to learn about bitcoin and software development in a hands on manner Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter On MMT, Stephanie Kelton is inspirational (https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_kelton_the_big_myth_of_government_deficits) not stupid, but I think her strategy is likely to be highly inflationary MMT tries to describe the complex financial systems that regulate money production in an economy It also debunks the "how will you pay for it?" argument to redistributive social policies On the darker side, it likely requires capital controls and financial surveillance to work Corrections No one has raised anything lately... Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 8: Deep Dive: Intro to Decentralized Exchanges
4/8/2022 • 22m
Hodlhodl (https://hodlhodl.com/) does what it says on the tin, not much instruction required, not availible in USA Intro to Bisq (https://bisq.network/getting-started/) Great Bisq intro video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhHF1zoLd4) by High Level Bitcoin (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQx8FNjPZ8JO9y21K3bYg0g/featured)
Episode 7: FUD vs Education
4/3/2022 • 1hr 2m
News Latest Attacks on Bitcoin Energy FUD Proof of stake proponents attack Bitcoin's energy usage (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/29/22999715/climate-change-bitcoin-drop-energy-hungry-software-code-proof-of-work) to justify the existence of their own centralized, self-serving projects Research on bitcoin's energy impact (https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/61d2416d1d63f07ecbfd010c/61e73cb0ac05f32ed010668a_Key%20Facts%20on%20Bitcoin%20%26%20the%20Environment-03%20(1)%20(1)%20(1)%20(1).pdf) suggests the energy concerns are not credible Claims that bicoin wastes energy (https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/61d2416d1d63f07ecbfd010c/61e06fd0387be5288a07d9d6_Climate%20Organizaions%20Crypto%20Letter-01-13-01.pdf) are easily dismissed with data #### Attack on Self-Custody EU seems to be planning to ban crypto self-custody (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CJ12-PR-704888_EN.pdf) It's so bad even Brian Armstrong of Coinbase doesn't like it (https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-industry-pushes-back-after-eu-vote-to-block-unhosted-wallets) 5a. In the case of a transfer of crypto- assets to an unhosted wallet, the crypto- asset service provider of the originator or other obliged entity shall obtain and retain the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 from its customer, where available, and make such information available to competent authorities upon request Confusingly Democrats propose bill to create private ecash (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/28/us_digital_dollar/) instead of a CBD And it's Rohan Grey again Bitcoin Education Take Gary Genslers MIT blockchain class (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall-2018/resources/session-24-conclusion/) and become an expert Interesting to learn what the head of the SEC thinks about BTC Very bullish on permissioned blockchains - wrong on that The bitcoin whitepaper (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) is a surprisingly accessible read. Check it out! the bitcoin dad on how to dismiss 99% of altcoins without remorse Understand the BTC vs ETH blockchain size (https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-blockchain-size/) as a mental shortcut to understanding most altcoins (and why they don't work) Even Vitalik thinks ETH doesn't really work (https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/03/29/road.html) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Jupiter Extras: March Boost Battle (https://extras.show/84) Corrections None today! Outro 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/)
Episode 6: Touching hot stoves
3/27/2022 • 1hr 17m
Podcasting2.0 is here! Try listening on a podcasting2.0 compatible app and interact with the show with lightning! Fountain Podcast (https://www.fountain.fm/) is a slick podcast app with a built in lightning wallet Breeze Wallet (https://breez.technology/) is heavier on the lightning wallet, but also has podcasting capabilities News Algo-stablecoin Terra/Luna buying bitcoin with tether(?) (https://news.bitcoin.com/terras-founder-do-kwon-looks-forward-to-building-with-bitcoin-project-reportedly-acquires-125m-in-btc/) to provide reserves against it's algo-stablecoin Some explanation of the Terra/Luna ecosystem (https://www.publish0x.com/cryptoeq/an-honest-criticism-of-terra-ust-and-luna-as-they-stand-toda-xknlxvw) Understanding algo-coins (like MakerDAO) is complicated (https://blog.makerdao.com/a-guide-to-dai-stats/) Just a touch of geo-politics Lyn Alden's latest newsletter summarizes the macroeconomic changes (https://www.lynalden.com/march-2022-newsletter/) brought by Covid,inflation, and bitoin Apparently Russia is open to selling gas for bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/russia-open-to-sell-gas-for-bitcoin) Russian Central Banker's resignation results in another 5 year term (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/russia-central-banker-wanted-out-over-ukraine-but-putin-said-no?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics) And a little economic history Cigarettes as commodity money (https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/dlf/ECO_473_Money/Money_material/The%20Economic%20Organization%20of%20a%20POW%20Camp%20-%20edit%20version.pdf) Self Custody Security Hubspot data leak (https://archive.ph/EChln) affects up to 30 bitcoin companies Coinbase requires address verification for withdrawls (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/25/coinbase-to-require-recipient-information-for-crypto-transfers-from-users-in-canada-singapore-and-japan/) for 3 countries Hackers are compromising crypto exchange security (https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/112/) by sim swaping and spearfishing crypto holders using leaked customer databases Awesome Bitcoin Recomendations The best bitcoin dashboard (https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/) online Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter > A listener wrote in to ask about mistakes we've made and how to avoid them We suggest self custody with lots of testing and documentation Corrections None today! Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Breeze Wallet (https://breez.technology/) is also an option Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 5: End of the Petrodollar - Weirdly, not alarmist
3/21/2022 • 1hr 14m
Good News Everyone Bill From 'Bitcoin Senator' Lummis (https://decrypt.co/94834/bill-bitcoin-senator-lummis-alter-capital-gains-landscape-crypto?amp=1) Would Alter Capital Gains Landscape for Crypto End of the Dollar - Weirdly, not alarmist The petrodollar system is crumbling faster than expected (https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollars-for-chinese-oil-sales-11647351541) as Saudia Arabia considers Yuan options for oil pricing Sanctions are blowing up the dollar system because experts explain they only work when used well (https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Singh%20Testimony%209-12-18.pdf), i.e. in our current disfunctional world, they will not work Somewhat desperate US negotiaions for oil with Iran (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/white-house-oil-deals-saudi-arabia-venezuela-iran-00014803) Bitmex founder Arthur Hayes (https://blog.bitmex.com/energy-cancelled/) appears to be a listener as he stole our third episode for his latest article :D, tldr Petrodollar system is toast Lyn Alden describes the petrodollar system (https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/) Bad News Warren tries to destroy open source (https://www.coincenter.org/new-crypto-sanctions-bill-targets-publishing-code-facilitating-transactions/) with anti-crypto bill with language so vague microsoft might be able to finally kill linux Share Your Opinion Contact U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/shareyouropinion) U.S. Treasury: Bitcoin Not Illicit (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/us-treasury-bitcoin-not-illicit) Wasabi wallet adds ban-list (https://archive.ph/myERy) and it's worse than you'd think (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/wasabi-wallet-explains-new-bitcoin-censorship) because they did it voluntarily. Use JoinMarket and Samourai (via Sparrow) Recomended Tools Samourai Wallet (https://samouraiwallet.com/) an android mobile wallet with privacy features Hodlhodl (https://hodlhodl.com/) a peer-to-peer exchange for non-KYC purchase of bitcoin Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 4: Petrodollars, ICOs, and Podcasting 2.0
3/13/2022 • 1hr 4m
News Twitter adds the ability to access the platform natively through Tor (https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/) Beware Bitcoin's eternal September (https://archive.ph/ce4vk) - privacy is fundamental to bitcoin counterbalacing centralized financial control US Senators want to lock down (https://archive.ph/jW7Ve) Russia's gold reserves Gladstein's Petrodollar (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/petrodollar-deep-dive-with-alex-gladstein) history Are Russian sanctions the begining of the end of the petrodollar (https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03/09/americas-quiet-default/) How the U.S. dollar became the world's reserve currency : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085605288/the-dollar-at-the-center-of-the-world-classic) ICO History The story of Justin Sun (https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex) and the Tron ICO Feedback Remember to ask for feedback bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Corrections None today! Outro Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) The Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 3: Sanctions vs Self Custody
3/7/2022 • 1hr 32m
Feedback Remember to share feedback at bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bdadpod on twitter Advice for LostFaithinPaperMoney Helpful links for begining to self-custody your bitcoin Intro (https://bitcoin-intro.com/) to holding bitcoin Sparrow Wallet (https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/quick-start.html) quick start guide Wallet Software and a good Hardware Wallet Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet - Sparrow Wallet (https://sparrowwallet.com/) COLDCARD Wallet – Hardware Wallet - The Most Trusted and Secure Hardware Wallet (https://coldcard.com/) Exodus (https://www.exodus.com/) News Finally some good privacy news (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-February/020026.html) from Chris Belcher about his new coinswap protocol This Month in Bitcoin Privacy is back! (https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/February_2022/) Awesome newsletter by the pseudonymous opensource journalist Janine More challenges with Wasabi v2, incredibly privacy info NFT marketplace OpenSEE is not decentralized and subject to sanctions policy (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/03/opensea-bars-iranian-users-as-us-sanctions-talk-ramps-up/) Etherium infrastructure providers will block certain areas (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/03/metamask-infura-block-certain-areas-amid-crypto-sanctions-fury/) from using their "decentralized" blockchain Sanctions on the Russian Central Bank (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/central-bank-sanctions-breach-fortress-russia-halt-intervention) may have frozen 30-50% of Russian FX reserves History - Payments vs Global Money Chris is so right about bitcoin 10 years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgShbj-8c28&t=1588s) but the narrative was mostly about transactions, not investment/value transfer into the future Nick Szabo's Shelling Out (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/) describes a theoritcal framework to analyze a commodity gradually becoming money Paper is hosted by the Nakamoto Institute (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/) which has some great bitcoin research The narrative between transactional money and gold/value money changed during the Block Size War (https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-1-first-strike/) Mike Hearn of Bitcoin XT analyzes the death of the bitcoin network (https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.5jvqjf9lg) in 2016 Early video defending bitcoin's small block (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZp7UGgBR0I) decentralization, look at the comments for a sense of how loud the big block argument was An early podcast debate on block size Increases (https://www.bitcoin.kn/2015/09/adam-back-gavin-andresen-block-size-increase/) between Gavin Andreeson and Adam Back Corrections Proof of Stake is great for pump and dumps Tuur Dem has a concise piece (https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/critique-of-buterins-a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-49fc9ebb36c6) outlining some logical fallacies in POS security Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 2: Of Coinjoins and Steak Coins
2/26/2022 • 1hr 26m
Feedback Email us at bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) Intro Wasabi Wallet de-anonimized? (https://twitter.com/LaurentMT/status/1496252516702605318) A Brief explanation of Coinjoin Samourai Wallet - Whirlpool (https://samouraiwallet.com/whirlpool) JoinMarket - Bitcoin Wiki (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/JoinMarket) Thanks to Coder Radio (https://coder.show): Coinbase CEO admis that apple calls the shots (https://www.theverge.com/22939290/web3-coinbase-apple-moderation-nfts) The ETH DAO hacker found? (https://t.co/sZpqmU7pdl) Apparently found due to a flaw in the wasabi coinjoin protocol How do you know that DAOs are probably all hype? The Nation (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dao-crypto-union/) is talking about them. A few more thoughts (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/26/daos-may-be-the-future-of-work-but-dont-bet-on-them-being-the-next-big-asset-class/) on DAOs On the subject of businesses not sticking their necks out (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/22/canadas-osc-warns-crypto-exchanges-not-to-promote-self-custodial-wallets-report/) for users, Cannada scolds exchanges Ukranians are running to the dollar (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/02/24/tethers-usdt-stablecoin-well-over-1-on-ukrainian-crypto-exchange/) stablecoins Xpub, Master Public Key, Private Key explained (https://www.swanbitcoin.com/whats-in-an-xpub/) Caitlyn Long shares some economic history (https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1496836080238481408) Corrections Unbanked/Underbanked (https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/cps/cps-supp_cps-repwgt/cps-banked.html) population in the USA is much more complicated than we thought and probably less than 30 million Russia's GDP is not $4 Trillion, it's much much less (https://statisticstimes.com/economy/country/russia-gdp.php) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)
Episode 1: The Bitcoin Dad Pod and Wyoming is for Stable Coins
2/23/2022 • 1hr 8m
News and Refences Crypto bill incoming: Russia’s finance ministry kicks off public comment period (https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-finance-ministry-opens-public-comment-period-for-the-crypto-bill) | Palley on Twitter: (https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1494775036254859265) "11th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses trial court decision in Bitconnect case and holds that peddling shitcoins in a non-targeted way on the interwebs (YouTube, Twitter etc) exposes promoters to liability from purchasers of unregistered securities. https://t.co/Oh7BA4GGo2" / Twitter United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eleventh_Circuit) Wyoming lawmakers introduce legislation for state-issued stablecoin (https://cointelegraph.com/news/wyoming-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-for-state-issued-stablecoin) Coinkite Store – Get your Coinkite, Opendime and Coldcard product here! (https://store.coinkite.com/store/opendime) Russian Supreme Court Classifies Illicit Crypto Use Under Money Laundering Laws (https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-supreme-court-classifies-illicit-crypto-use-under-money-laundering-laws) American Nations (https://colinwoodard.com/books/american-nations/): Looking at the United States as a conglomeration of different countries and societies with different values and incentives. Digital ruble trial goes live as Bank of Russia insists on Bitcoin ban (https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-ruble-trial-goes-live-as-bank-of-russia-insists-on-bitcoin-ban) Palley on Twitter: "11th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses trial court decision in Bitconnect case and holds that peddling shitcoins in a non-targeted way on the interwebs (YouTube, Twitter etc) exposes promoters to liability from purchasers of unregistered securities. https://t.co/Oh7BA4GGo2" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1494775036254859265) Specter Desktop Wallet (https://specter.solutions/) and the specter wallet github (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
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ERC20 is the Conman Wonderland of the 20's.
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Great show!
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Episode 67: Bad Week for Bankers
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Episode 79: Interview: Ordinals, Inscriptions & BRC-20 with Brandon Black
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Politics are fun as a random thing here and there but I definitely tune in for your collation of BTC news (I dislike trying to do this filtering myself) and making technical topics accessible for dummies like me. Appreciate your tireless work!
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recommendations for Lightning Wallets for mobile devices??
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