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 05, 2023Episode 82: UTXO is OUR Word
Pre-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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1h 7min
May 28, 2023Episode 81: Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for Thee
Pre-Show
Bottlepay shuts down again
News
High 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/)
Feedback
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1h 13min
May 20, 2023Episode 80: Hardware Wallet Web Backup
Pre-Show
Etherium transactions stopped finalizing briefly last week but it didn't really cause issues
News
Altcoins
Ledger 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
Feedback
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1h 23min
May 17, 2023Episode 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
...more
44min
May 15, 2023Episode 78: Going Full Editorial
News
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 Education
Come 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
Feedback
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57min
May 10, 2023Episode 77: Bitcoin: TNG w/ Anthony Park
Interview: 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
Feedback
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30min
May 06, 2023Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody Cares
Pre-Show
The AdoptingBTC conference in El Salvador on November 7th
News
The 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 Banking
First 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
Feedback
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1h 20min
May 03, 2023Episode 75: Reaction to Huw Pill
Who 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
Feedback
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1h 2min
April 30, 2023Episode 74: A Checking Account to Rule Them All
Pre-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
News
Better 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 Banking
The 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
Feedback
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1h 13min
April 25, 2023Episode 73: Nuclear Buyback
Pre-Show
Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail after 6 months in jail waiting a trial
News
Economics and Banking
The 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
Energy
Germany 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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1h 31min

FAQs about Bitcoin Dad Pod:

How many episodes does Bitcoin Dad Pod have?

The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.