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May 08, 2022Episode 14: Can't spell stagflation without oil and gas
Pre-show Tease
The Roblox saga continues
News
Mainstream
Funny Verge article laughs at various flavors of bitcolin maximalism at Bitcoin 2022
Warren attacks Fidelity plan to add bitcoin to 401k(k) plans
Economics
Economics Mini-Series: Three articles to grok the current monetary and energy transition
Lyn Alden's epic 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
The last 20 years of low interest rates are bad experience for understanding high interest rate/high inflation investing
Arthur Hayes' Doom Loop 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
Febuary story about the failure 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 and how selling bitcoin reserves could trigger a market crash
Solana needs another restart, POS is going great!
NFT activity is flatlining 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
Bitcoin Education
A boost suggest we look into open timestamps
Feedback
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See on-chain bitcoin activity using Glassnode
Sell files on lighting with agora
Bitcoin KPIs provides free on chain data about the bitcoin network
See up to date mining pool data with the mempool.space mining dashboard
Corrections
None today!
Outro
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 30 min
May 04, 2022Episode 13: Interview: Capitalist Dog from Lightning.page
Links
Hosting video on the bitcoin lightning network
The demo lightning.page social layer built on lightning
The project mainpage and resources
Feedback
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Outro
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
1 hr 12 min
April 30, 2022Episode 12: Bitcoin Core is not Bitcoin
News
New version of Bitcoin Core has been released
Proof of Stake has already centralized Etherium 2.0 validation
Bitcoin is not a store of value...yet
CAR adopts bitcoin but it's not super clear what that means
Jeremey Rubin shakes the tree with a speedy trial soft fork proposal for OP_CHECK_TEMPLATE_VERIFY
7 Theses on a next step for BIP-119 · Jeremy Rubin
BIP-119 bproposes adding covenants to bitcoin
Bitmex has a great explanation of the poposal
Andreas made a video critical of the activation method
The creator, Jeremy Rubin, describes some potential use cases in detail on the ChainCode podcast
Jeremy explains his thoughts on bitcoin development in a blog post
Forth worth to mine bitcoin in the city hall after a donation
Paper on the El Salvador bitcoin experiment from Stacker.news
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Bitcoin Education
Next Bitcoin Core PR Review Club is scheduled
Upstream data home mining with a sound dampening box guide
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Corrections
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Outro
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
1 hr 41 min
April 24, 2022Episode 11: Side Talk Spectacular
News
Crypto schadenfreude: yes, most DAOs are just a convenient structure for scamming
Turkey bans cryptocurrency for transactions
Matt Levine's breakdown of the Terra-Luna peg and Ponzinomic strategy
Last year he broke down the IRON-TITAN stablecoin failure which is illuminating as to the weaknesses of a two coin system
IMF's Global Financial Stability Report is almost an add for bitcoin
Ukraine's Central Bank Bans Crypto Purchases in Local Currency
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 protocol from lightning labs
Color coins have existed for a while on bitcoin, but this protocol seems stablecoin focused
Feedback
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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
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Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 54 min
April 17, 2022Episode 10: Cross Input Monetary Death Cult
Intro
The Classic GM Motorhome comes up
News
Submit a comment on bitcoin's energy usage to the Biden administration
Fascinating infographic on how Americans have weird preceptions about reality
Bitcoin ownership is surprisingly less centralized than the ownership of the US stock market
The prize for worst FED vice-chair nomination ever goes to Michael Barr, formerly of Ripple
Blackrock goes from bitcoin is a 'money laundering index' to all in-ish
Lebanon confiscates foreign currency accounts surprising no one
Unfortunately, things in El Salvador aren't going great
Bukele didn't show up at Bitcoin2022
The Bitcoin Bond issue has been postponed till September but Bukele call's conerns FUD
A skeptical podcast talks to two El Salvadorians on the wrong side of Bukele
Perhaps the US Seneate report of El Salvador will provide better data on the state of bitcoin in the country
Strike Partners With Shopify, Blackhawk, and NCR to Bring Bitcoin Lightning Payments to Merchants
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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
What is CISA? Good question, lol :P
Feedback
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For help re-creating a wallet try walletsrecovery.org
Don't be the guy who runs an unregistered money transmitters service
Corrections
None today!
Outro
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
1 hr 21 min
April 11, 2022Episode 9: Maximal Critique
News
Criticism: Internal and External
Pete Rizzo's latest article is a thoughtful summary of the three main narratives of bitcoin maximalism
Currently tether is an important humanitarian tool which challenges the 'bitcoin fixes this' narrative of 3rd world finance
The Cannadian government's sanctions of the Ottowa truckers 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 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?
Privacy News
A deeper look at Rohan's ECASH act and why the Bitcoin Dad supports it, but is concerned about its limitations
The act has a fascinating research section
Coincenter has researched the necessity of anonymous cash for an open society as well
Cash App gets hacked and containg ~8 million customers, inside job
Moxie (rightly) takes down the false privacy assumptions of Telegram
But what are the trade offs of Signal?
Protonmail + Simplelogin? *Chef's kiss
Bitcoin Education
Even Vitalik thinks ETH doesn't really work
Bitcoin 2022 Conference Open Source Stage has great technical discussion
The Bitcoin Core PR Review Club is a way to learn about bitcoin and software development in a hands on manner
Feedback
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On MMT, Stephanie Kelton is inspirational 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
The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
53 min
April 08, 2022Episode 8: Deep Dive: Intro to Decentralized Exchanges
Hodlhodl does what it says on the tin, not much instruction required, not availible in USA
Intro to Bisq
Great Bisq intro video by High Level Bitcoin
23 min
April 03, 2022Episode 7: FUD vs Education
News
Latest Attacks on Bitcoin
Energy FUD
Proof of stake proponents attack Bitcoin's energy usage to justify the existence of their own centralized, self-serving projects
Research on bitcoin's energy impact suggests the energy concerns are not credible
Claims that bicoin wastes energy are easily dismissed with data
#### Attack on Self-Custody
EU seems to be planning to ban crypto self-custody
It's so bad even Brian Armstrong of Coinbase doesn't like it
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 instead of a CBD
And it's Rohan Grey again
Bitcoin Education
Take Gary Genslers MIT blockchain class 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 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 as a mental shortcut to understanding most altcoins (and why they don't work)
Even Vitalik thinks ETH doesn't really work
Feedback
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Jupiter Extras: March Boost Battle
Corrections
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Outro
Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 3 min
March 27, 2022Episode 6: Touching hot stoves
Podcasting2.0 is here!
Try listening on a podcasting2.0 compatible app and interact with the show with lightning!
Fountain Podcast is a slick podcast app with a built in lightning wallet
Breeze Wallet is heavier on the lightning wallet, but also has podcasting capabilities
News
Algo-stablecoin Terra/Luna buying bitcoin with tether(?) to provide reserves against it's algo-stablecoin
Some explanation of the Terra/Luna ecosystem
Understanding algo-coins (like MakerDAO) is complicated
Just a touch of geo-politics
Lyn Alden's latest newsletter summarizes the macroeconomic changes brought by Covid,inflation, and bitoin
Apparently Russia is open to selling gas for bitcoin
Russian Central Banker's resignation results in another 5 year term
And a little economic history
Cigarettes as commodity money
Self Custody Security
Hubspot data leak affects up to 30 bitcoin companies
Coinbase requires address verification for withdrawls for 3 countries
Hackers are compromising crypto exchange security by sim swaping and spearfishing crypto holders using leaked customer databases
Awesome Bitcoin Recomendations
The best bitcoin dashboard online
Feedback
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> 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
The Fountain podcast app
Breeze Wallet is also an option
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 18 min
March 21, 2022Episode 5: End of the Petrodollar - Weirdly, not alarmist
Good News Everyone
Bill From 'Bitcoin Senator' Lummis Would Alter Capital Gains Landscape for Crypto
End of the Dollar - Weirdly, not alarmist
The petrodollar system is crumbling faster than expected 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, i.e. in our current disfunctional world, they will not work
Somewhat desperate US negotiaions for oil with Iran
Bitmex founder Arthur Hayes 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
Bad News
Warren tries to destroy open source 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
U.S. Treasury: Bitcoin Not Illicit
Wasabi wallet adds ban-list and it's worse than you'd think because they did it voluntarily. Use JoinMarket and Samourai (via Sparrow)
Recomended Tools
Samourai Wallet an android mobile wallet with privacy features
Hodlhodl a peer-to-peer exchange for non-KYC purchase of bitcoin
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting
1 hr 15 min

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