BTC Sessions

Today’s guest Hass McCook discusses the environmental impacts of Bitcoin vs Gold.   

Hass’s articles on Coindesk 

https://www.coindesk.com/author/hass-mccook

Hass’s Medium 

https://medium.com/@hassmccook/the-economic-environmental-cost-of-bitcoin-part-i-ac162067721d

Hass on Twitter 

https://twitter.com/FriarHass

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SHOW TOPICS:

Bitcoin hits new yearly highs 2 days in a row. $10K incoming?

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-hits-new-yearly-high-for-the-second-day-in-a-row/

5 Tips For The Bull Market

https://bitcoinist.com/top-5-crypto-trading-tips-to-prepare-you-for-the-upcoming-bull-market/

Related:

Brian Kelly “diversified crypto portfolio” post mortem

https://medium.com/bull-bitcoin/the-crypto-diversification-trap-6744b0a954a6

Trezor tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BIo5Ac_n4

Ledger tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YWdw2AOCg

Coldcard tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kocEpndQcsg

Square Crypto shares details on Lightning Development Kit

https://decrypt.co/18620/square-crypto-reveals-more-details-on-bitcoin-lightning-kit

US Government is auctioning off $37 million of Bitcoin

https://decrypt.co/18499/us-government-to-auction-37-million-of-bitcoin

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Lightning Labs secures $10M funding seed round and announces Loop

https://medium.com/@lightning_labs/entering-the-decade-of-lightning-8c4a4d31167f

https://lightning.engineering/loop/

Bitpay Dumps Bip70, basically admitting defeat. You should probably use BTCPay or OpenNode instead anyways.

https://cryptobriefing.com/bitpay-art-underwhelming-upgrades/

“The Missing Crypto Queen” BBC podcast series documenting the OncCoin Ponzi scheme is being turned into a TV drama

https://decrypt.co/18488/onecoin-scandal-to-become-tv-drama

Former ECB Vice President says central bank digital currencies are still a decade out

https://bitcoinist.com/central-bank-crypto-10-years-away/

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What is Bitcoin’s monetary policy? How many Bitcoins will ever be issued? How often are new ones created? Who gets them? More importantly, is this the same for altcoins? If not, how do they hold up against Bitcoin?

In today’s show I explore these topics and give you a number of questions you should ask yourself any time you look at an altcoin and think it’s a “good deal”.

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SHOW TOPICS

Bitcoin Up 32% This Month

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-is-up-32-this-month/

75% of all Bitcoin are in profit

https://bitcoinist.com/over-75-of-bitcoin-in-circulation-are-in-profit/

Trezor Wallets Can Be Hacked

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trezor-wallets-can-be-hacked-kraken-reveals

Attacking Bitcoin for one day costs $21 Million

https://decrypt.co/18012/you-would-need-21-million-to-attack-bitcoin-for-a-day

Jack Mallers announces incredible Strike app – true lightning innovation

https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-strike-by-zap-4f578c7c8984

Vlad Costea examines Bitcoin’s leaderless advantage

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bitcoin-s-leaderless-advantage-and-how-it-came-to-be

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Today I sat down with Ledn’s Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss the idea of proof of reserves, building financial products on Bitcoin, and the implications of some companies carrying over bad practices of traditional finance to a world with no lender of last resort.

Ledn on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/hodlwithledn

Mauricio on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/cryptonomista

Mauricio’s proof of reserves article from Bitcoin Magazine:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-proof-of-reserves-is-important-to-bitcoin

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Today’s guest is Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream. We dive into Blockstream's Liquid Network, what it is, and who it's for.

Samson on Twitter https://twitter.com/Excellion 

Read more about Liquid Network https://blockstream.com/liquid/ 

Read more about Blockstream https://blockstream.com/

Check out my YouTube tutorial for Blockstream Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3Zi9D5b0Y

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SHOW TOPICS:

Microsoft says on-chain scaling degrades decentralization, prefers layered scaling approach

https://bitcoinist.com/farewell-bitcoin-cash-microsoft-chain-scaling-degrades-decentralization/

Lightning Network Trust Chain part 2 is on the move!

https://twitter.com/hashtag/LNTrustChain2?src=hashtag_click

Opendime – physical bitcoin

https://opendime.com/

Bitcoin privacy war – will it be worse than the scaling war?

https://eng.ambcrypto.com/bitcoins-privacy-war-could-be-worse-than-the-scaling-war/

Wasabi wallet

https://wasabiwallet.io/

Samourai Whirlpool

https://samouraiwallet.com/whirlpool

Joinmarket

https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org

Liquid Network

https://blockstream.com/liquid/

Lightning wallets list

https://lightningnetworkstores.com/wallets

BTCpay Server introduces “BTCpay Vault”

https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-vault/

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Rise tutorial

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SHOW TOPICS:

What the hell is going on?

Peter Schiff irresponsibly loses his private keys, blames Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1218911797626847234

Binance CEO suggests keeping funds on exchanges

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-ceo-suggests-crypto-exchanges-are-safer-than-keeping-ones-keys

Trace Mayer endorses Bobby Lee’s Ballet Crypto wallet

https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status/1219003646685278208

A look at Bitcoin Block Size

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/what-is-the-bitcoin-block-size-limit

John Carvalho on What Bitcoin Did discussing Defending Bitcoin

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/defending-bitcoin-with-john-carvalho

Post-mortem of Segwit2X

https://www.coindesk.com/2x-called-off-bitcoin-hard-fork-suspended-lack-consensus

Bitcoin Core contributors list

https://bitcoin.org/en/development#dev-communities

Breez Lightning Wallet tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4b-y4T8bY

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SHOW TOPICS:

Canadian Securities regulators hit exchanges hard

https://cointelegraph.com/news/canadian-regulator-issues-new-guidance-for-cryptocurrency-exchanges

Summary by Matt Burgoyne

https://twitter.com/BurgoyneMatt/status/1217866056519143430

Plan B Stock To Flow Model vs Efficient Market Hypothesis

https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/efficient-market-hypothesis-and-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-model-db17f40e6107

Live Stock to Flow model

https://digitalik.net/btc/

Bitcoin up 25% this year already

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-already-up-25-in-2020-after-hitting-9-000

Bitcoin hashrate

https://coin.dance/blocks/hashrate/linear

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Rise tutorial

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