Bitcoin Dad Pod

Episode 105: Europe's on the Move


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Pre-Show
  • Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project

    • ECB's Digital Euro CBDC Project Moves to 'Preparation' Phase
    • The actual report details how the digital euro is basically a credit card processing system with the ECB as the clearinghouse

    • News
      • Wordpress site hackers are using Binance Smart Chain to host malware payloads
        • free to call contract data
        • cheap to update the contract contents on BSC
        • Using a storage function on-chain to store payload
        • We hope that Jimmy Zhong, who plead guilty to 'hacking' the Silk Road, serves his prison sentence without issue and lands on his feet

          • There is also a documentary about Jimmy's story
          • Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 "All your mempool are belong to us"

          • US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF -source | Reuters

          • US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF

            • A coindesk editorial on Ripple is very pro CBDC while failing to make a case for any social benefits, and completely missing the huge social costs of closed payment systems, of course it was written by Ripple's VP for CBDCs
            • Economics
              • Bitcoin beats inflation if you hold it long enough
              • Privacy
                • The EU keeps trying to eliminate digital privacy and in a weird twist, this effort is being pushed by Aston Kutcher of 'That 70s Show'
                • Altcoins
                  • Coinbase sort of out of india
                  • Bitcoin Education
                    • Bitcoin Optech #273 covers BitVM, a lightning vulnerability and much more

                    • Fidelity Investment's latest bitcoin report is an excellent summary on bitcoin's value proposition

                      • Value of scarcity
                      • Network effects
                      • No real competition from other digital assets
                      • Game theory of bitcoin forks
                      • Feedback
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