Australian Bitcoin Podcast

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Australian Bitcoin Podcast episodes

April 12, 2022 Episode 14: Bitcoin News - Bitcoin Conference 2022 Highlights & Announcements (Education, Mining, and Privacy Are Pumping!), and Other Global and Australian Bitcoin News
Thanks to our hosts:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au

Notes & References
Bitcoin 2022 Conference
Highlights - too many to list! Just listen to the first 20 minutes! In sum: bitcoin mining, privacy, and institutional investment are all barrelling ahead.
Samson Mow's announcements:
1. Prospera, jurisdiction on the Roatán island off of the northern coast of Honduras, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender
2. Madeira, an autonomous region in Portugal, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender
3. Mexico is proposing a bill for legal tender
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/04/07/two-new-territories-are-adopting-bitcoin/

Jack Mallers' Strike partners with Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/07/jack-mallers-strike-announces-shopify-integration-for-bitcoin-lightning-payments/
Tesla, Block, and Blockstream to setup 100% solar-powered bitcoin mine in Texas
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/tesla-block-blockstream-to-mine-bitcoin-off-solar-power-in-texas.html

Australian News
OTR accepting bitcoin payments starting in July (through Crypto.com system)
https://twitter.com/HardBlockBTC/status/1510789927944200192
RBA to audit 10% of their 80 tonnes of gold in Bank of England
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-golden-audit-rba-to-check-on-its-6-billion-in-bullion-20220406-p5abf3.html
Bengal Energy, a Canadian oil and gas business, is dabbling in Bitcoin (BTC) mining as a way to tap into the untapped energy from its gas wells in the Australian outback
https://news.coincu.com/77167-bengal-energy-plans-mine-bitcoin-australias/
DazBea1 and others release the Looking Glass Financial Education platform
https://lookingglasseducation.com/

Global News
EU Parliament passes privacy-busting crypto rules despite industry criticism
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/31/eu-parliament-votes-on-privacy-busting-crypto-rules-industry-rails-against-proposals/

“Beware of wartime fake news triggering a run”, EU banks told
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/beware-wartime-fake-news-triggering-run-eu-banks-told-2022-04-01/

Greenpeace paid $5 million by Chris Larson (co-founder of XRP/Ripple) to campaign for bitcoin to change from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bitcoiners-scoff-at-chris-larsens-dollar5m-campaign-to-force-a-btc-code-change/ar-AAVD5I5

Trezor customer email address list compromised via Mailchimp
https://nitter.net/Trezor/status/1510558771944333312

Tennessee Titans becomes first NFL team to adopt a bitcoin standard
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tennessee-titans-become-first-nfl-team-to-accept-bitcoin

Technology
Bitcoin Bounty Website
https://bitcoinbounties.org/

Econoalchemist's article on how Whirlpool mixing fixes the Canadian trucker protest problem
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/freedom-convoy-should-whirlpool-bitcoin

Mining stats/insights added to mempool.space
https://mempool.space/mining

Intel launches their new bitcoin mining chip
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/intel-launches-new-bitcoin-mining-chip-blockscale

Taro on Taproot enables issuance of stablecoins and shitcoins on bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/05/lightning-labs-raises-70m-to-bring-stablecoins-to-bitcoin/
48 min
April 05, 2022 Episode 13: Upgrade Your Email Privacy With ProtonMail, Tutanota, CTemplar, AnonAddy, and Simple Login
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/hardblockbtc
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au

References
https://learn.hardblock.com.au/how-to-upgrade-your-email-privacy/

** Please note that CTemplar closed down as of May 2022.

Notes
- OnTheRun to accept bitcoin payments in Australia
- Overton window shifting to include bitcoin, inflation, and the debt crisis
- Why upgrade your email privacy?
- Google is monitoring you, censoring content, and feeding/teaching their artificial intelligence systems with your data
- What to look for in a private email provider?
- End-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption, free and open source, and good reputation
- What's the easiest way to make the move to a private email account?
- Having a Password Manager can make transitioning to private email easier
- Keep your old email account open and gradually transfer data and subscriptions across to your newer private email service - this makes the process easier and reduces the chance of forgetting to transfer something across
- Step 1: Sign-up to a private email provider, eg, ProtonMail, Tutanota, or CTemplar
- ProtonMail is a good all-round choice (easy to sign-up privately, more features than others, long-term reputation, and continuing to build a privacy-focused ecosystem including calendar, cloud storage, VPN service, etc)
- Try to sign-up without linking the new email address to an email, phone number, or IP address already associated with you - this is probably unnecessary, but good for privacy practice!
- How to choose a username for your new private email address (full name, first name, pseudonym or otherwise)?
- Step 2: Sign-up to an email alias forwarding service, eg, AnonAddy or SimpleLogin
- How do email alias forwarding services work?
- What username to choose for email alias forwarding services?
- Step 3: Provide an email alias for every website you sign-up to in future
- How else can you use email alias forwarding service (eg, replying from the alias and disabling aliases)?
- Checking yourself out on www.haveibeenpwned.com to see if any of your emails or passwords have been compromised in known data breaches
- Good privacy can result in better security, eg, protecting against credential stuffing attacks based on data breaches
- Recent MailChimp and HubSpot data breaches
- Social engineering attacks are harder to employ against someone who uses a private email, email alias forwarding service, and a password manager
- Which password manager should you use? BitWarden - although there'll be a separate podcast and article released about that soon
- If you're missing Google Meets audio and video calling, then look into Jitsi, Signal, or Impervious.ai's upcoming browser
- Don't let perfect be the enemy of good! Start today and make gradual steps over time
36 min
April 01, 2022 Episode 12: Bitcoin Privacy With k3tan (Ministry of Nodes) - KYC vs No KYC, Chain Analysis Heuristics, Samourai and Sparrow Wallet Coinjoin and Mixing Tools, and Network-level Privacy Considerations
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our guest:
https://twitter.com/_k3tan
https://twitter.com/ministryofnodes

Host: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au

Notes
- k3tan's personal bitcoin journey
- Ministry of Nodes (helping clients hold their own keys, run their own node, and follow privacy best-practices)
- similarities between bitcoin distributed ledger and BitTorrent filesharing
- what is privacy?
- is bitcoin private by default?
- increased security through improved privacy
- data leaks (eg, Ledger, HubSpot)
- things to consider with bitcoin privacy: KYC vs no KYC, on-chain transactions, and network-level privacy
- KYC vs no KYC: pros and cons, and methods
- SatsSpend Australian Bitcoin Business list
- tips to improve bitcoin privacy: keep your mouth shut, don't reuse receiving addresses, and use UTXO management (eg, labeling and coin control/selection)
- what is a UTXO (unspent transaction output)?
- HardBlock's auto-send feature and not reusing receiving addresses
- Sparrow and Samourai Wallet for privacy features
- Whirlpool coinjoin mixing
- chain heuristics: address reuse, common input ownership, self-spends, round-number, largest output, change position, change vs spend address/script type, multi- vs single-signature)
- anti-fingerprinting features (change output position randomisation, and same-type spend and change outputs)
- BIP47 (PayNym) reusable static stealth addresses
- post-mix coinjoin spend tools (eg, Stonewall, Stonewall 2X, Stowaway, Ricochet)
- is Lightning Network private (eg, multiple hops through custodial services or BoltzExchange)?
- network-level privacy
- running your own node
- what is Tor?
- what is a VPN?
- using Tor and a VPN to improve privacy
- nodes to consider: RoninDojo, RaspiBlitz, MyNode, Umbrel, Citadel, Start9, or Ministry of Nodes custom multi-use build
- Australian ISP data logging and metadata retention
- planning for privacy is low time preference
- privacy is fundamental in the cypherpunk and bitcoin ethos
- using Australia Post parcel locker for bitcoin-related deliveries
- being bullish on bitcoin privacy
- attacks on bitcoin privacy and fungibility important to keep in mind and fight against
- self-hosting maximalism
- running a pfSense free and open source software (FOSS) router

References
https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/c/MinistryofNodes
https://github.com/Daunus/SatsSpend
1 hr 34 min
March 29, 2022 Episode 11: Bitcoin News - Australian Bush Bash, Bitcoin Privacy, Data Leaks, Inflation & Modern Monetary Theory, El Salvador Bond, Global & Australian Adoption Updates
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/hardblockbtc
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au

Notes
- Bitcoin Bush Bash reflections
- Privacy news
- RoboSats
- CoinSwap protocol ("Teleport Transactions")
- BIP47 adoption
- Whisper Addresses
- Wasabi wallet fiasco
- HubSpot data breach
- American and Australian inflation "pumping" and governments using Modern Monetary Theory
- El Salvador bond
- South Korean President bullish on bitcoin
- Potential announcements at Bitcoin Miami 2022
- Russia accepting bitcoin for energy resources
- Exxon mining bitcoin
- Thailand bans merchants accepting bitcoin
- Sri Lanka financial and economic crisis
- Google Chrome high severity zero day vulnerability - use Firefox, Brave, Tor, or LibreWolf instead!
- Arkon Energy bitcoin mining company sets Australian pre-seed funding record
- ANZ issues first Australian dollar stablecoin
- JP Morgan Coin
- Upcoming Australian cryptocurrency exchange regulations

References
https://github.com/Reckless-Satoshi/robosats
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-February/020026.html
https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1182-bdk-plans-to-add-bip47-support/
https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bip47
https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.6.2
https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/issues/2883
https://github.com/supertestnet/whisper-addresses
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/wasabi-wallet-explains-new-bitcoin-censorship
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1506293002536427526?s=20&t=6iLXaYQ5bMfKRkJOmYRd3w
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/358/
https://www.hubspot.com/en-us/march-2022-security-incident
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/10/us-inflation-rises-to-79-in-february-fresh-4-decade-high/
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-index-cpi
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/producer-prices
https://learn.hardblock.com.au/getting-ahead-of-inflation/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/el-salvador-e2-80-99s-bitcoin-bond-issuance-apparently-delayed/ar-AAVfp1u
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/new-south-korean-president-seeks-to-give-a-local-crypto-push/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/24/russia-might-take-bitcoin-as-payment-for-oil-and-gas-as-sanctions-rise.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/26/exxon-mining-bitcoin-with-crusoe-energy-in-north-dakota-bakken-region.html
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/thailand-announces-medium-of-payment-ban-for-bitcoin-and-crypto
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2022/03/28/whats-behind-sri-lankas-economic-crisis/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emergency-google-chrome-update-fixes-zero-day-used-in-attacks
https://www.investordaily.com.au/markets/50846-aussie-bitcoin-mining-startup-sets-pre-seed-funding-record
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/anz-the-first-bank-to-mint-an-australian-dollar-stablecoin-the-a-dc-20220323-p5a743
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/senator-bragg-speech-industry-support-for-crypto-regulation
50 min
March 22, 2022 Episode 10: Bitcoin Nodes for Beginners - What is a node, why run a node, costs and time involved, and prominent node projects.
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://www.twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://www.twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
43 min
March 17, 2022 Episode 9: Chief Bitcoin Officer of Perth Heat discusses orange pilling, the link between bitcoin and sport, transferring energy from an unusable to usable state, game theory, and mining bitcoin.
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our guest:
https://twitter.com/CBO_21
https://twitter.com/PerthHeat

Host: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
1 hr 40 min
March 15, 2022 Episode 8: Gold and Silver Primed to Pump, Used Cars a New Store of Value, but Bitcoin Still the Hardest Money
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, round-table discussions about recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://www.twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://www.twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
30 min
March 15, 2022 Episode 7: Bitcoin Open Source Desktop and Mobile Wallets (Bitcoin Core, Lily, Electrum, Sparrow, Green, Wasabi, Blue, Muun, and Samourai)
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, round-table discussions about recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://www.twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://www.twitter.com/danWilcz
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

References
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/254/

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
37 min
March 08, 2022 Episode 6: Bitcoin News - Russia Ukraine War; Regulations in Thailand, China, Laguna, and America; El Salvador Thriving on Bitcoin; Intel Releasing a Bitcoin Miner; and Australian Housing Crisis
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, round-table discussions about recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our hosts:
https://www.twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://www.twitter.com/danWilcz
https://www.twitter.com/jeremy_m16
https://www.twitter.com/ausbitcoinpod

News References
https://github.com/Daunus/SatsSpend
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/russia-submits-first-bitcoin-bill-proposal
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/ukraine-legalizes-bitcoin
https://bitcoinist.com/mastercard-visa-paypal-suspend-russian-operations/
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/11/afghanistan-frozen-assets-economy/
https://bitcoinist.com/iranian-venezuelan-opensea-users/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/thailand-scraps-15-crypto-capital-gains-tax-following-public-backlash
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/24/chinas-supreme-court-rules-crypto-transactions-constitute-illegal-fundraising/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/lugano-switzerland-will-make-bitcoin-legal-tender
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tourism-in-el-salvador-up-30-since-bitcoin-adoption-minister-says
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/intel-details-bitcoin-mining-chip-bonanza-mine
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/middle-income-australians-locked-out-property-government-report

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
49 min
March 05, 2022 Episode 5: Bayani Mills (Koined.store) discusses his bitcoin journey and business, circular economies, the Turkish Lira, orange pill strategies, cognitive scaffolding, shitcoins, bitcoin mining.
The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, round-table discussions about recent news, and guest interviews.

Thanks to our guest: https://www.twitter.com/bayanimills (of https://koined.store)

Host: https://www.twitter.com/mission_bitcoin

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
1 hr 40 min