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By The Bitcoin DadTechnology
Bitcoin Dad Pod episodes
- Episode 23: Bulls, Bears, and PigsPre-show
- Support the show by providing some inbound liquidity to our lightning node
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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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 59 min - Episode 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
## ShownotesGet 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 9 min - Episode 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
FeedbackRemember 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 34 min - Episode 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
FeedbackRemember 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 40 min - Episode 20: Be water, my friend, not exit liquidityNews
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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 1 min - Episode 19: The birds and the CBDCsNewsEconomics
- 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 40 min - Episode 18: Cynically Saving the ChildrenNews
- 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
EnergyNew 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
FeedbackRemember 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 33 min - Episode 17: Stablecoin AlchemyEconomics
- 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 10 min - Episode 16: Deep Dive - Starting Self Custody and Your First WalletGetting bitcoin off ExchangesHabits
- 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 AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting38 min - Episode 15: Interview: Seth for PrivacyPre-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
- The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and AcknowledgementsMusic by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 9 min
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