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Bitcoin Dad Pod episodes
- Episode 32: Under the CurveNews
- Italy's government descends into chaos with the failure of a confidence vote for Mario Drahgi
EconomicsExcalibur is Arthur's follow up to A Samurai, A Knight, And A Yankee
El Salvador announces a debt buyback scheme
- Seems designed to reduce fears of defaul
- El Salvador's bitcoin buys in 2021 were less than 0.5% of the national budget
Tokenomics- The SpiceDAO saga ends with a surprise privatization and they might literally also be child predators
Bitcoin Education- Offline seed generation for lazies
- Learn more about seeds and key generation from lunaticoin
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Corrections- None today!
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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Sponsors and AcknowledgementsSelf Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
47 min - Episode 31: Interview: Kemal from GaloyGuest Kemal
- Learn more about Galoy and their Bitcoin Banking stack
- The Raspibolt guide that Kemal used to understand lightning and bitcoin's value proposition
- The Raspibolt is a 'one click option' that achieves similar funcitonality
- The Galoy 'Liquidity Paper'
- The Arthur Hayes piece on Bitmex synthetic dollars
- Say hi to Kemal on twitter @_pretyflaco
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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- Fountain podcast app (Android)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
Sponsors and Acknowledgements- The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 2 min - Episode 30: Wildly SpeculativeIntro
Wild speculation that @elonmusk killed #terraluna with their #Bitcoin sale at 30k, killed all the degens, What a legend 🤣
Crypto skeptic David Gerard has a current list of exchanges with red flags
News- Chinese citizens are emigrating but concerned about taking their wealth with them while a collapsing real estate bubble that might take down the financial sector is slowing economic growth
Economics- Russia using dollars as unit of account but UAE dirhams as payment
The real story might be China's compounding economic decline masked by the Zero-Covid policy
ECB hikes rates to 0%, first raise in 10 years, but clearly not enough to tame inflation
- 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.
TokenomicsScaramuchi's Skybridge Capital gates fund
Amy Castor on the Solend Whale story, she's a hater but gets this story right
Chainlink God's L1 Rotation Thesis is a good retrospective on the 2021 mania written by a degenerate altcoiner
Energy- Debunking Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy FUD by Ben Gagnon Chief Mining Officer of Bitfarms
PrivacyChainalysis' article on 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
Bitcoin Education- Bitcoin Optech #208 focuses on discussions of the inflationary (or not) effects of tail emissions and dealing with fee sniping
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
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
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements- The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 41 min - Episode 29: Peak GriftonomicsNews
French wholesale CBDC iminnent
- Bank of Int'l Settlement's Project Jura shows development of multinational CBDC settlement systems
Conversations about the language of bitcoin in the context of European regulation
Ars Technica doesn't understand why financial privacy is important
- Increased KYC/AML, 10k Euro cash limits, unhosted wallet reguations
- What bitcoin is actually doing is signing messages
Should U.S. Government Employees who work on crypto policy be allowed to own crypto?
Economics- Exploding 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 on blockspace demand and liquidity
Tokenomics- Celcius finally files for bankruptcy, and it's a chapter 11 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 with some of the money
- Also 3ac has abandoned their offices, looks like they're pulling a runner!
- Loans were used to buy stupid NFTs
Energy- Lyn Alden, a Financial Analyst, outlines a case for structurally higher energy prices for the 2020s
- Expensive Gasoline Keeps More Summer Drivers Off Road Than at Height of Pandemic
- Latest EU report on bitcoin compares bitcoin to ICE cars, it's pretty bad research
Bitcoin Education- The OP_RETURN war of 2014 pushed DAP development off bitcoin
- No concept of a neutral bitcoin network
- Idea of 'miss-using' transactions
- Bitcoin Optech #208 is either really interesting or we're nerds
- Tunnel your home node through a VPS courtesy of bitcoinlizard
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
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Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 48 min - Episode 28: Interview - Jameson LoppJameson Lopp
- Bitcoin as a trust anchor
- Jameson's views on IPOs, ICOs, and STOs
- Jameson's bitcoin educational resources
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting56 min - Episode 27: Stock to SeagullsNews
Debunking the bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) model
- 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 and Pete Rizzo's rebuttal
- Revisiting Rizzo's early piece on bitcoin maximalism provides context
- Nic has serious bitcoin chops as evidenced by his website
Economics- Arthur's breadown of the crypto lending crash
- Doesn't dwell on the alleged fraud at 3ac
- Economic research paper linking ETFs to lower wages
Tokenomics- CAR is creating their own altcoin based on 'tokenized natural resources', just like Venezuela
- Report on CAR paints a bleak picture of the country
Privacy- Hacked exchange accounts are cheaper than expected on the dark web
- Chinese total surveillance police state apparently doesn't protect citizen data particularily well
- Similar leak detailed how China uses surveillance to commit genocide on the Uighers
- The libertarian CATO Institute report on how inflation reduces financial privacy
- CATO's 1998 newsletter supporting Adam Back and the cypherpunks drive for encryption and privacy
- Rember the clipper chip?
Energy- IAE report on nuclear energy 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
- Elizabeth's Stark's lightning network primer is a good start
- Blockstream has a schnorr half aggregation proposal
- You can view it in their cross input signature aggregation (CISA) repo
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- Fountain podcast app (Android & Apple)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting59 min - Episode 26: Sidechains for Sandwiches v2Pre-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 sh*tshow
- 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 Global Energy Comes From
### Tokenomics- 3ac ordered to liquidate by a BVI judge
- FTX rumored to be aquiring BlockFI for $25m but Zac Prince, BlockFI CEO denies this
- Ledger adds rehypothication via Alchemy Earn
Privacy- European custodial crypto transfers will be completely surveilled, but self-custody carveout remains for now
Coinbase is a surveillance company helping ICE and other 3 letter agencies perform warrentless surveillance on all their customers
nokyc: A script that lists all current Bisq offers in the terminal
Bitcoin Education- The oracle problem as shown by the Chainlink 2.0 white paper
- Bitcoin Optech #206 is mostly education links
- The largest multisig quorums per address type
- Bitcoin Core node block relay options
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
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
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- Fountain podcast app (Android & Apple)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 26 min - Episode 26: Sidechains for SandwichesPre-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 Global Energy Comes From
Tokenomics- 3ac ordered to liquidate by a BVI judge
- FTX rumored to be aquiring BlockFI for $25m but Zac Prince, BlockFI CEO denies this
- Ledger adds rehypothication via Alchemy Earn
Privacy- European custodial crypto transfers will be completely surveilled, but self-custody carveout remains for now
Coinbase is a surveillance company helping ICE and other 3 letter agencies perform warrentless surveillance on all their customers
nokyc: A script that lists all current Bisq offers in the terminal
Bitcoin Education- The oracle problem as shown by the Chainlink 2.0 white paper
- Bitcoin Optech #206 is mostly education links
- The largest multisig quorums per address type
- Bitcoin Core node block relay options
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
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
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- Fountain podcast app (Android & Apple)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 26 min - Episode 25: Token GesturesNewsEconomics
- Lyn Alden's June newsletter is all about Demand Destruction
- El Salvador’s 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 except not really
- Aaaand he's providing $250m of revolving credit 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
- Privacy
DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing, 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
- Wasabi says it's not being reckless, the release is just so great it doesn't need testing
- We mention Bloom Filters, a fascinating bit of bitcoin engineering
China weaponizing health screening codes to crush protestors against bank account confiscations
- A CBDC would cut out several steps in this problem
Bitcoin Education- Bolt Hackathon tutorials on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning
- Certified Bitcoin Professional test
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Corrections- None today!
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- Fountain podcast app (Android)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 9 min - Episode 24: Interview: Bryan Solstin, WA Candidate for US SenateInterview: Bryan Solstin
- Bryan's campaign website
- Follow Bryan on twitter @BryanBSolstin
- Bryan's podcast
Feedback- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
- The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting44 min
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