Bitcoin Dad Pod

By The Bitcoin Dad

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 ... more

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Bitcoin Dad Pod episodes:

June 20, 2022Episode 23: Bulls, Bears, and Pigs
Pre-show
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Welcome to the Bear Market
If bitcoin is dead...why is the federal reserve doubling down on their FedNow CBDC bitcoin clone?
Hilarious video touting its benefits
The US White House is also doubling down on CBDCs
Centralized solutions enable MORE monetary policy, not less, delaying the debt crisis
Reading list for the Bear Market
Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopolus
Programing Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
Grokking Bitcoin is less technical, more like a comic
A hands on course for using a bitcoin node from the command line
News
Congressional Research Service releases a paper describing current stablecoin regulatory frameworks and a followup that outlines the regulatory options
Jack Mallers gives a great interview 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
The Federal Reserve's Plan was a recession all along
Cisco is a tech canary, when they freeze hiring it's a red flag
Tokenomics
Celsius network halts withdrawls, appears insolvent and poised to take down other stealth crypto hedgefunds and lenders like 3ac
Who could have known that the NBA would create huge numbers of NFTs to satsify demand for Top Shots, tanking their price?
Lyn's post-mortem of the vurrent crypto crash 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 is a mix of failed predictions and an attempt to pump his DEX bags
Privacy
DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing, might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue
Bitcoin Education
A list of bitcoin privacy proposals by Seth for Privacy
Certified Bitcoin Professional test
Bolt Hackathon tutorials on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning
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
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 59min
June 18, 2022Episode 22: Interview: Crypto Mom, Attorney at Law
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 or linkedin
Sec charges Poloniex Exchange for unregistered asset trading
Washington State charges Celsius for operating an unregistered money service business
Celsius' Terms of Use indicate they are aware that their products are likely notes or securities
There is ample legal precedent to define notes, or lending, as securities
The DAO Report 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
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 9min
June 13, 2022Episode 21: Bitcoin Bill or Altcoin Shill?
News
Lumis & Gillibrand's massive crypto bill is probably not going anywhere soon but interesting:
Definite Altcoin carvouts: allows altcoins to register as 'ancillary assets'
CFTC Chair wants BTC to become POS
Human rights activists pen letter to congress in epic response/troll to last weeks 'concerned technologist's' letter
Gary Kasparov, Navalny's org, Nigerian feminists and Gladstein
PayPal enables crypto payments
Their explanations of 'crypto' are not terrible
Head of MIT digital currency initiate 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
Non-peer reviewed paper makes pretty benign claims
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 has driven inflation up
Argument that inflation is everywhere so it couldn't be US fiscal policy alone
Energy
Chelan County creates rate 36 for cryptominers but it's not clear why
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
Bitcoin Education
A list of bitcoin privacy proposals by Seth for Privacy
Output descriptors as recomended by bitcoinlizard
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Corrections
None today!
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 34min
June 13, 2022Episode 21: Bitcoin Bill or Altcoin Shills?
News
Lumis & Gillibrand's massive crypto bill is probably not going anywhere soon but interesting:
Definite Altcoin carvouts: allows altcoins to register as 'ancillary assets'
Stablecoin regulation
Tiny tax-free cash carve out $200
Disclosure requirements for ICOs
Let's wait and see, but bipartisan support is telling
CFTC Chair wants BTC to become POS
Human rights activists pen letter to congress in epic response/troll to last weeks 'concerned technologist's' letter
Gary Kasparov, Navalny's org, Nigerian feminists and Gladstein
website is a copy, lol
PayPal enables crypto payments
Their explanations of 'crypto' are not terrible
Head of MIT digital currency initiate 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
Non-peer reviewed paper makes pretty benign claims
Takes simple facts about bitcoin out of context
Comment section is heartening, much more sophisticated than in the past
CryptoKyle identifies Cold Card bag problem/potential avenue for supplychain attack
Economics
US Treasury Secretary Yellen denies that fiscal policy has driven inflation up
Argument that inflation is everywhere so it couldn't be US fiscal policy alone
Energy
Chelan County creates rate 36 for cryptominers but it's not clear why
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.
So maybe this is better that out right bans?
Malachi Salcido, CEO of Salcido Enterprises, instructed the native information outlet that the brand new fee will drive him to reconfigure his three Chelan County crypto mining services into information farms.
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
Bitcoin Education
A list of bitcoin privacy proposals by Seth for Privacy
Output descriptors as recomended by bitcoinlizard
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Corrections
None today!
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 40min
June 04, 2022Episode 20: Be water, my friend, not exit liquidity
News
Anti-bitcoin personality promotes anti-crypto lobbying letter:
“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 company that ripped off its name from the best hacking game of the 2000s
That said, most crypto lobbying is for altcoins
Why many successful people dismiss bitcoin
Ubuntu-Mate is still taking bitcoin donations
New York State prepares legislation to ban bitcoin mining and it sort of matters
Economics
Arthur's latest article ties together inflation, FED policy, and market's appetite for risk assets
The In Gold We Trust Report
SEC goes after NFT insider trading
Tokenomics
The Hex Spam King is offering 40% APY on your investments
1.3M Etherium transactions failed in May and this is expensive
Weird video of a video of Vinay Gupta claiming Etherium exists to monetize the presale whale's holdings
Vinay has an odd "physical blockchain" product called matterum
Privacy
Seth's list of bitcoin privacy improvement technologies
Ledger no longer supports running your own bitcoin node
Bitcoin Education
This week's bitcoin optech
Thinking about the progressive case for bitcoin
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 [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Consider joining the Jupiter Broadcasting Bitcoin Room for general discussion or the questions room if you have pressing questions that need answering
Corrections
None today!
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 1min
May 29, 2022Episode 19: The birds and the CBDCs
News
Economics
Circle doesn't want CBDC competition
The American Banking Association recognizes that a CBDC would kill the current banking system
Savings rates fall in the USA amid increasing economic uncertainty
Russia is already thinking about cryptocurrency for international transfers
CryptoVoices global monetary base report is out!
Tokenomics
High speed blockchains economically centralize according to Murch
Energy
US Power grid may fail this summer
California Warning Alarms since 2018 about hydro
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
NERC sounds alarm on solar tripping in 'sobering' summer reliability report
California Water Usage in Crops, and the Water Value of Almonds
Privacy
German officials agitating to ban telegram
Guide to P2P bitcoin exchanges
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech focuses on package relay ... which might be the perfect BIP
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Boosts
Wallets Recovery for help recovering wallets from seed phrase
Corrections
None today!
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 40min
May 22, 2022Episode 18: Cynically Saving the Children
News
Sweet infographic shows who funds bitcoin development
Tokenomics
The Problem of Etherium 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
How sweet (and brief) it is to be a top 10 coin
Energy
New CCAF report on bitcoin mining has some surprising(?) opinions
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index Change Log
Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave Isn’t a Good Sign | The Drive
Privacy
This Month in Bitcoin Privacy is back!
Powerfull edition, great discussion of financial surveillance
Details CBDC incentives are completely anti-privacy
Start your own local trading group
EU plans to 'save the children' by abolishing online privacy
Seattle Bitcoin (Seattle, WA) | Meetup
Bitcoin Education
200th edition of bitcoin optech is out!
OP_CAT could enable recursive bitcoin covenants - protocol work is really hard!
Rusty Russell proposed an OP_TX opcode to replace Jeremey Rubin's OP_CTV. His proposal is more extensible and has all of the benefits of OP_CTV
Corrections
Gary Gensler: crypto exchanges trading against their customers, also, water still wet -> this was a broad characterization is probably wrong for some exchanges like Kraken
PSA - Umbrel is insecure
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Some tips on running a full node:
Lopp's guide to bitcoin and tor setup
K3tan's excellent ubuntu nodebox guide
A docker node option I haven't tried
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 33min
May 15, 2022Episode 17: Stablecoin Alchemy
Economics
Why are all financial markets down?
Tokenomics
How to make $800 million breaking LUNA
Surprise, surprise! Do Kwon the Terra founder is a serial altcoiner involved in several failed projects
Other alt-coin/algo-coin constructions like neutrino are also crashing based on this broad panic
Arthur's take on stablecoins
Bitmex's history of stablecoins
Energy
Norwegian mining ban is reversed
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
Corrections
We were wrong about mining pool decentralization: it's more centralized and it's ok
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 [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Boosts
Mentioned CoinOS as a potential solution to hosting wallets for the family
Tourquoise Fox mentioned bitcoin optech to keep track of bitcoin development
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 10min
May 14, 2022Episode 16: Deep Dive - Starting Self Custody and Your First Wallet
Getting bitcoin off Exchanges
Habits
Fast off exchange
Rehypothification
Custody risk
Slow on cold storage
Wallets
Bitcoin.orgs wallet selector
Another pretty good guide to mobile bitcoin wallets
Guide to desktop wallets
The Exodus Wallet for those of you who are doing bitcoin + altcoins
Printable sheets for writing out your wallet seed
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Join the Jupiter Broadcasting bitcoin channel using element messenger
Value for Value
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
38min
May 10, 2022Episode 15: Interview: Seth for Privacy
Pre-Show Thoughts
Seth's recommended tools page is quite brilliant
Notes from interview
A history of cryptonote by Murch!
Monero's stealth address technology explained
Paynyms, a private public bitoin address courtesy of the Samourai Devs
Seth says 'silent addresses' but he means 'silent payments', a bitcoin privacy proposal by our favourite Bitcoin Sourcer, Ruben Somsen!
Nymnet with Harry Halpin was one of my favorite OptOutPod interviews
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Outro
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
...more
1h 9min

FAQs about Bitcoin Dad Pod:

How many episodes does Bitcoin Dad Pod have?

The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.