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Bitcoin Dad Pod episodes
- Episode 82: UTXO is OUR WordPre-Show
- Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant, Rules US Federal Judge in a Historic Decision
News- Lots of crypto schadenfreude in Amy Castor's newsletter
Economics and Banking- The EU's cbdc is using a UTXO model, but no, this isn't a response to bitcoin
- USDC Issuer Circle Has Ditched All U.S. Treasuries From $24B Reserve Fund Amid Debt Ceiling Showdown
- Tether is investing operating profits in bitcoin,
Energy- A multi university study of the texas grid identifies positive benefits to bitcoin miners engaged in demand resposne programs
Bitcoin Education- The problem of low-value lightning payments
- Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #253 covers ARK, analsysis of different transaction sizes and lots of updates
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 7 min - Episode 81: Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for TheePre-Show
- Bottlepay shuts down again
NewsHigh bitcoin fees are leading to an explosion of scaling ideas, including Barak the lightning slayer's ARK, an offchain private scaling solution
- Barak explains it deeply on the linux mailing list
WalletScrutiny has been taken down again due to a nuissance lawsuit
- Must check resource before using a wallet
US HoR Representative Tom Emmer's proposed Securities Clarity act is a shipcoin bill
Altcoins- OpenAI + WorldCoin, debunking ultra-scammer Sam Altman's agenda
- WorldCoin is built on Cosmos a plug and play VC blockchain solution
- Worldcoin gitub repo is completely dead
- Get some context on OpenAI and ChatGPT by listening to Coder Radio 519: Not So OpenAI
Economics and Banking- Evidence emerges that central banks around the world coordinated a 2008 manipulation of LIBOR
- JP Morgan explains that the Fed helped design SOFOR, an easier to control alternative
- LIBOR was killed due to a 2012 scandal where banks gamed LIBOR to make derivative returns
Bitcoin Education- Bitcoin Core v25 released with significant maintenance upgrades including higher witness data limits, better error messages, and more build options
- Awesome Robostats guide
- Bitcoin Optech #252 covers (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/24/)
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 13 min - Episode 80: Hardware Wallet Web BackupPre-Show
- Etherium transactions stopped finalizing briefly last week but it didn't really cause issues
NewsAltcoinsLedger Recovery is a terrible idea poorly executed but its understandable that this model of crypto custody would be tried eventually
- How Nunchuk multisig wallet works, an alternative inheritance strategy
- Seth also explains what's wrong
No Grayscal trust for FileCoin says SEC
- Even Justin Sun says FileCoin is a pump and dump scam
- How does Filecoin work? It's complicated.
- https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html
Economics and Banking- Arthur's latest blog post The Denominator explores the changing risk in the US banking system and the implications for long term growth (bad) (TLDR: nationalize banking system and bitcoin wins or don't but cut rates, bitcoin wins)
- Europe has its first Bitcoin ETF, how is Europe lapping the US in cyrpto finance
Bitcoin Education- Fiatjaf's idea to use spacechains and fedimints to scale bitcoin transcation throughput
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 23 min - Episode 79: Interview: Ordinals, Inscriptions & BRC-20 with Brandon Black
A brief history of the brief history of ordinal inscriptions on bitcoin from glassnode
- Another introduction to ordinals from crypto company Bitgo
- Bitcoin developer Andrew Poelstra on why banning arbitrary data from the bitcoin blockchain isn't feasible
- The Ordinal docs
- The introductory doc to BRC-20 experiment which uses ordinals to create altcoins on bitcoin
- Brandon Black's github
44 min - Episode 78: Going Full EditorialNews
- Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low
- PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv
- Commercial Real Estate is the next legacy asset to implode and a test sale indicates prices could fall by 75%
- Frontline's The Age of Easy Money, a documentary about FED policy in the 2010s
Bitcoin EducationCome to Adopting Bitcoin
Bitcoin Optech #250 showcases a paper on POWswap, a way for miners to 'insure' themselves against changes in hashrate, and several release candidates
- Also covers some concerns from Adam Gibson with signature adaptors
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting57 min - Episode 77: Bitcoin: TNG w/ Anthony ParkInterview: Anthony S. Park - Bitcoin Executor
Note: no affiliation with Anthony and this conent is focused on practices in the United States
Make a plan since dealing with an estate is harder than you think
- Anthony on not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in your estate planning
- Say hi to Anthony on twitter at @btcexecutor or checkout his podcast that he didn't mention
A bitcoin executor nomination in your will
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting30 min - Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody CaresPre-Show
- The AdoptingBTC conference in El Salvador on November 7th
NewsThe U.S. Whitehouse is proposing a new tax on electricity used by bitcoin miners
- Jen W, a journalist at NYMAG, has a great expose on the regulatory hurdles being used to drive "Crypto" businesses out of the United States
Glassnode, a blockchain data providor, reviews what moved on the bitcoin blockchain this week
Lyn Alden on the structure and implications of open monetary networks .i.e. the very structure and rules of money create the current state of society
Altcoins- Coinmetrics on MakerDAO, a decentralized collateralized stablecoin, that is struggling to remain decentralized and stable
Economics and BankingFirst Republic bank is has been sold to JP Morgan as the U.S. Banking crisis accelerates
- Though some regional banks dispute claims of their financial distress
Even the IMF's own research don't support the wage-price spiral argument that justifies current central bank anti-employment policy
Privacy- Lets talk payjoins and other
Bitcoin Education- Bitcoin Optech #249 covers another proposal for bitcoin vaults and waxwing's thoughts on adapter signatures which are necessary for new taproot multisig constructions
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 20 min - Episode 75: Reaction to Huw PillWho is Huw Pill?
- Bank of England career page
- The 2% inflation target is not scientific it came from an off the cuff remark by a New Zealand official
- The podcast in question
- Edward Chancellor's excellent book on financial panics
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 2 min - Episode 74: A Checking Account to Rule Them AllPre-Show
- Millions of dollars lost while moving through an airport contrasts with over $10 million in BTC was sent in 1 transaction this morning, and it cost the sender $5
NewsBetter update LND lightning nodes as it looks like a critical vulernability was discovered
- The release lnd v0.16.1-beta notes
Altcoins- Crypto did not cause Signature, Silvergate and SVB collapses, and FTX exposure was minimal per a U.S. Congressional report
- The report istelf
Economics and BankingThe U.S.A.'s banking crisis is not over as First Republic limps on
- A former FDIC official observes that the FDIC is broke after nationalizing Sillicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank
Arthur's baaaack and on fire with his latest blogpost on what a dollarized world is from a trade perspective and what comes next (gold then bitcoin?)
China's gold reserves continue to rise, perhaps as an alternative escape hatch for trade surpluses
Lyn Alden is also back discussing the US debt ceiling and how it will interact with relativly illiquid financial markets
Bitcoin Education- How does a smaller bicoin node that uses more bandwidth sound? Meet utreexo
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 13 min - Episode 73: Nuclear BuybackPre-Show
- Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail after 6 months in jail waiting a trial
NewsEconomics and BankingThe Treasury Borrowing Advisory Commitee (TBAC), proposed a Treasury buyback program in February, another sign that Yield Curve Control is the solution to the U.S. Governments debt spiral
The 1 yr US Treasury bill continues to sharply invert, expressing a negative economic outlook
EnergyGermany shut down its remaining nuclear plants after a multi-decade political shift against nuclear energy
- Eon, a German energy producer, increased electricity prices by 45 percent in related news english version
Privacy- Trezor, a hardware wallet, adds coinjoin integration for user privacy, but its through Wassabi Wallets ZKSnacks' coordiator that does chain analysis on users before letting them coinjoin
MullvadVPN, a reputable privacy focused VPN provider, was served a warrant in Sweden, their home juristiction, no customer data was handed over since Mullvad collects no such data
jam is a webui on top of joinmarket, a maker-taker based coinjoin protocol that avoids the centralized coordinator issues of Samurai and Wasabi
Bitcoin Education- Let's talk bitcoin's security model to see if critique's of bitcoin security are useful or the new FUD
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Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting1 hr 31 min
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