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  • Episode 42: Move Fast and Break...Eggs?
    News
    • Signet Fediment instance is live
      • Signet is a test network for bitcoin that is more centralized than testnet, making it more reliable
      • Economics
        • Even Japan is experiencing inflation and the yen has lost ~40% of it's value this year
          • But inflation in Japan is only 3% and their currency is down 40%, maybe something else is going on
          • Tokenomics
            • Even professional altcoin market makers are getting hacked

              • But it was a vanity address problem, which has also popped up on bitcoin
              • Celsius and Voyager bankruptcy procedings are weird, FTX shows up everywhere

                • [Crypto exchange FTX]](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/crypto-exchange-ftx-valued-at-32-billion-amid-bitcoin-price-plunge.html) achieves high private valuation in a crypto bear market
                • Cryptocurrency exchange FTX saw its valuation swell to $32 billion in a new funding round announced Monday, highlighting continued appetite for the sector even as investors grow wary about a sharp pullback in crypto prices.
                • The Bahamas-based company said Monday that it raised $400 million in a Series C financing round — its third fundraise in the last nine months.
                • Bitcoin Education
                  • Jameson Lopp on the tricky logic of UTXO selection
                  • K3tan's homelab might be a good topic for discussing serious self hosting setups
                    • Check out his self-hosted bitcoin node guide and this companion piece
                    • Bitcoin Optech goes drivechain-ey
                    • The surprisingly simple math underlying the argument for monetary tail emission
                    • 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
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                            • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                              • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
                              • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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                                59 min
                              • Episode 41: If you can't beat 'em, Merge
                                News
                                Economics
                                • Risk, insurance, and law enforcement. Social pressure didn't change police behavior, liability insurance did
                                • The FRB of Atlanta determines that Quantitative Easing does almost nothing
                                • Tokenomics
                                  • The World Economic Forum seems bullish on the etherium POS transition from an ESG perspective
                                    • So is Greenpeace, who took money from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen to attack bitcoin's energy usage
                                    • Dive into Etherium game theory and incentives with checkonchain's youtube video or read a bitcoiner's guide to POS
                                      • The ETH community response is telling, missrepresting the criticism
                                      • Energy
                                        • Nic Carter's promised annotations of the Whitehouse crypto report
                                        • Bitcoin Education
                                          • bitcoin metrics website
                                          • Taro vs drivechains, which altcoin on bitcoin project will win?
                                          • Feedback
                                            • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
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                                            • Corrections
                                              • None today!
                                              • Value for Value
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                                                  • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                    • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
                                                    • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                      Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                      1 hr 8 min
                                                    • Episode 40: The Only Way Out is Through
                                                      News
                                                      • Poolin BTC mining pool suspends withdrawls, likely insolvent

                                                      • Bitcoiner does p2p trading, turns into a business, turns into a charge for operating an unlicensed money transmission business

                                                        • The case was factually misrepresented
                                                        • Economics
                                                          • Lyn Alden's August Newsletter analyzes clyces: investment, commodities, energy, and wealth itself
                                                          • Arthur's latest blogpost For the War echoes the capital control, commodity cycle fears of Lyn and Russell Napier
                                                          • Tokenomics
                                                            Energy
                                                            • A totally not crazy economics professor reiterates that rapid decarbonization is a fantasy

                                                            • Nordstream 1 has been shut down and the Kremlin will only start if if sanctions are lifted

                                                            • Gazprom getting paid in yuan for gas

                                                            • Privacy
                                                              • Janine's This month in bitcoin privacy is back, and juicy, since its three months of news
                                                              • Bitcoin Education
                                                                • Umbrel scripts
                                                                • Feedback
                                                                  • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                  • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
                                                                  • Corrections
                                                                    • We were wrong, mostly, read up on how Muun Lightning Wallet is considered self-custodial?
                                                                    • Value for Value
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                                                                        • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                          • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
                                                                          • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                            Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                            1 hr 15 min
                                                                          • Episode 39: Accidentally Debunking MMT (and POS)
                                                                            News
                                                                            • Iran formalizing crypto import rules while addressing concerns around crypto mining energy use
                                                                            • Economics
                                                                              • Zoltan Pozsar's 'War and Industrial Policy' suggests that the future is Chirussia versus Eumerica

                                                                              • Kansas City Federal Reserve connects inflation and fiscal spending

                                                                              • Tokenomics
                                                                                • Coinmetrics has a report on the etherium POS transition
                                                                                • Bitcoin Education
                                                                                  • Jameson Lopp has run the numbers on bitcoin core code changes and its the highest standards software project ever, we think

                                                                                  • Lyn Alden's lightning network deep dive

                                                                                  • Feedback
                                                                                    • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                                    • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
                                                                                    • Boosts / Feedback Notes
                                                                                      • Coldcard multisignature bypass attack

                                                                                      • Checkout RoboSats for your peer to peer no-KYC bitcoin buy8ing

                                                                                      • Contact Gary Gensler if you need to ask about your unregistered ICO, courtesy of big-government

                                                                                      • Corrections
                                                                                        • None today!
                                                                                        • Value for Value
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                                                                                            • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                                              • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
                                                                                              • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                1 hr 23 min
                                                                                              • Episode 38: Legal Trollz and Staking Lulz
                                                                                                News
                                                                                                • Over $1m in BTC donated to hodlnaut's defense against a nuisance libel suite from Craig Wright

                                                                                                  • The DefendingBTC website is coordinating the defense and following case
                                                                                                  • Greg Maxwell, former bitcoin core maintainer, explains the threat to developers that CW's lawsuits creates
                                                                                                  • A shot accross the bow for 'crypto securities' by SEC chief Gary Gensler

                                                                                                  • Craig Steven Wrigth doesn't have a monopoly on frivalous crypto lawsuits by lying crypto touts

                                                                                                  • Economics
                                                                                                    • The shortest recession in modern history is mostly forgotten

                                                                                                    • Arthur builds a new USD liquidity index and bitcoin seems to be doing its job

                                                                                                    • Jerome Powell speaks at Jackson Hole

                                                                                                    • Tokenomics
                                                                                                      • The story of Barkley's bank issuing too many securities shows the worst case outcome for ICOs

                                                                                                      • Cobie goes through the rational of staking APEcoin with a straight face.

                                                                                                      • What Is ‘the Merge’? - The New York Times

                                                                                                      • Bitcoin Education
                                                                                                        • Dive into bitcoin transactions courtesy of Andreas Antanopolous's book Mastering Bitcoin
                                                                                                          • Vbytes is a slightly different subject
                                                                                                          • Feedback
                                                                                                            • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                                                            • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
                                                                                                            • Corrections
                                                                                                              • Bit boy actually is proceding with his spurious lawsuit
                                                                                                              • Boosts
                                                                                                                • Fiatjaf came up and he was just on the The Kevin Rooke Show

                                                                                                                • Some advice on wallets:

                                                                                                                  • Samourai Wallet
                                                                                                                  • Blockstream green
                                                                                                                  • Value for Value
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                                                                                                                      • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                                                                        • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
                                                                                                                        • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                          Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                          1 hr 17 min
                                                                                                                        • Episode 37: Interview: The Dr Bitcoin Pod
                                                                                                                          Shownotes
                                                                                                                          • Team Faketoshi, a history of Craig Wright's claims to be Satoshi, by Arthur Van Pelt
                                                                                                                          • CSW's faked Satoshi signing session, by Arthur Van Pelt
                                                                                                                          • Arthur Van Pelt on Twitter
                                                                                                                          • Mark Hunter on Twitter
                                                                                                                          • Dr Bitcoin Podcast and on twitter
                                                                                                                          • Feedback
                                                                                                                            • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                                                                            • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
                                                                                                                            • Value for Value
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                                                                                                                              • Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
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                                                                                                                                • Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                • Sponsors and Acknowledgements

                                                                                                                                  Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                                  Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                                  49 min
                                                                                                                                • Episode 36: Going Ad Hominem
                                                                                                                                  News
                                                                                                                                  • Even Politico has noticed that southern European countries will have a hard time staying in the Eurozone

                                                                                                                                  • Craig Wright loses suit against Hodlnaut, still costs $112,000 to Hodlnaut

                                                                                                                                  • Economics
                                                                                                                                    • The silent depression shows that personal experience of financial hardship m
                                                                                                                                    • Tokenomics
                                                                                                                                      • Long form pieces about Kyle Davies and Su Zu of 3ac
                                                                                                                                      • Nova Labs, aka Helium, is still aquiring startups in a bid to remain relevant

                                                                                                                                        • No premine, but insiders take 35% cut every month
                                                                                                                                        • Helium lies about business partnerships, a typical scam technique
                                                                                                                                        • Brian Armstrong claims he would shut down Coinbase ETH staking rather than comply with OFAC censorship

                                                                                                                                        • Top 4 ETH staking pools make up nearly 58% of staking

                                                                                                                                        • Bitcoin Education
                                                                                                                                          • Mapping the nodes of the bitcoin peer to peer network by Gloria Zhao
                                                                                                                                          • Feedback
                                                                                                                                            • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                                                                                            • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like [element](https://element.io/get-started
                                                                                                                                            • Corrections
                                                                                                                                              • None today!
                                                                                                                                              • Value for Value
                                                                                                                                                • Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                • Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
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                                                                                                                                                  • Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                  • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                                                                                                    • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
                                                                                                                                                    • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                                                      Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                                                      1 hr 2 min
                                                                                                                                                    • Episode 35: Interview: Jill Williamson on OFAC, Tornado Cash and SEC vs Ripple
                                                                                                                                                      Guest: Jill Williamson aka Crypto Mom
                                                                                                                                                      • Get in touch with Jill via her website or linkedin
                                                                                                                                                      • The SEC vs Ripple Ripple Case
                                                                                                                                                        • Jake Chevinsky on SEC motion denial re this speach by SEC Director William Hinman
                                                                                                                                                          • The Court Opinion
                                                                                                                                                          • A non-family friendly podcast has the best rundown on the ripple story
                                                                                                                                                          • Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash Protocol
                                                                                                                                                            • Jake again
                                                                                                                                                            • The Tornado Cash entity has been added to OFAC's SDN list
                                                                                                                                                            • Coin Center rebuttal
                                                                                                                                                            • Feedback
                                                                                                                                                              • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
                                                                                                                                                              • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
                                                                                                                                                              • Value for Value
                                                                                                                                                                • Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                                • Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
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                                                                                                                                                                  • Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                                  • Sponsors and Acknowledgements

                                                                                                                                                                    Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                                                                    Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                                                                    39 min
                                                                                                                                                                  • Episode 34: Insiders Always Dump
                                                                                                                                                                    News
                                                                                                                                                                    • Iran is now trading using cryptocurrency it's not known which one, but likely bitcoin

                                                                                                                                                                    • UN warns about cryptoization risks for developing countries

                                                                                                                                                                    • Privacy
                                                                                                                                                                      • SEC and CTFC proposes more self reporting for crypto hedge funds

                                                                                                                                                                      • OFAC sanctions Tornado Cash protocol on Etherium

                                                                                                                                                                        • Massive withdrawls from TC despite/because of sanctions
                                                                                                                                                                        • Tornado Cash Developer arrested in Amsterdam

                                                                                                                                                                          • Possibly due to involvement with TC DAO
                                                                                                                                                                          • Targeting developers happened faster than we thought
                                                                                                                                                                          • MakerDAO Founder Calls on DAI to Drop Dollar Peg Amid Tornado Cash Fallout

                                                                                                                                                                          • Economics
                                                                                                                                                                            • An explainer of Private Equity and inadvertently how it is a feature of peak fiat
                                                                                                                                                                            • Thoughts on BlackRock?
                                                                                                                                                                              • BlackRock Launches Spot Bitcoin Private Trust
                                                                                                                                                                              • One wonders how this squares with all the ESG noise they have made? BlackRock CEO Stands Firm on ESG Investing
                                                                                                                                                                              • BlackRock often credited as the "mother of ESG" How BlackRock Made ESG the Hottest Ticket on Wall Street - Bloomberg
                                                                                                                                                                              • Tokenomics
                                                                                                                                                                                • Insiders Always Dump by Nik Bhatia
                                                                                                                                                                                • Bitcoin Education
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Bitcoin Optech #212 considers raising the dust limit

                                                                                                                                                                                  • Chris happy to see:

                                                                                                                                                                                    • ● Core Lightning #5071 adds a bookkeeper plugin that provides an accounting record of movements of bitcoins by the node running the plugin, including the ability to track the amount spent on fees. The merged PR includes several new RPC commands.
                                                                                                                                                                                    • 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
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
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                                                                                                                                                                                            • Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                                                            • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                                                                                                                                              • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                                                                                                Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                                                                                                1 hr 11 min
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Episode 33: All Roads Lead to Bitcoin
                                                                                                                                                                                                News
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Israel bans more cash transactions
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Consistent with financial surveillance trends
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Israel did YYC in the 1980s
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Australian police to expand asset seizures to cryptocurrency
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Economics
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • ECB paper ponders the holy grail of cross-border settlement

                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Concludes bitcoin is not credible due to volatility and POW
                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Somehow forgets issues inherent in fiat system

                                                                                                                                                                                                      • SwissRE concludes that the last 14 years of financial policy have been a tax on ordinary people

                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 3.5% for housholds which means you lose 67% over 14 years
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 1.5% for institutional bondholders which means you lose 23% over 14 years
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Tokenomics
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Major Solana projects were the work of two brothers pretending to be 11+ developers
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Recession or not, the US is hitting the limit of available fossil fuel energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • This is a PSA that we need grown up energy policy worldwide
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • An idea how gold fits into modern portfolio construction, it's scarcity fundamentally comes from energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Bitcoin Education
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Stablesats makes USD to bitcoin accounts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Have we ever actually explained bitcoin?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Checkout Jameson Lopp's research on metal seed backups
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 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
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Fountain podcast app (Android)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Sponsors and Acknowledgements
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1 hr 6 min

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          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…