Bitcoin Dad Pod

Episode 107: Real Time Kollisions

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  • Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch
    • The rollout of FedNow, a realtime payments system, has been predictably slow with a focus on bank-to-bank xfers
    • It compares favorably with the adoption of RTP, a private realtimes payment network
    • RTP is faster and cheaper than ACH or wire xfers but expensive compared to the bitcoin lightning network
    • MasterCard has a brief history of real time payments
      • But fraud is still an unsovled problem even on these more modern payment rails
        • News

        • The Kollider lightning derivatives exchange is shutting down after failing to find enough traders willing to use lightning

        • Cyrpto VC and Bitcoin writer Nic Carter has been distributing bounties to debunk the Wall Stree Journal, a financial newspaper, article that claimed Hamas' recent terrorist attack was funded by 'crypto'

        • As SBF is found guilty on all chargers, the WSJ has an interesting profile of Do Kwan, the founder of the bankrupt Terra-Luna algorithmic stablecoin system

          • Economics
          • Another U.S. regional bank has failed, but its small and probably doesn't matter?
            • Privacy
            • Kraken is complying with the US IRS' John Doe summons turning over large amounts of data on customers with more than $20k in trades
              • Altcoins
              • SafeMoon not safe from the US Dept of Justice, who have arrested several founders on fraud charges
                • Bitcoin Education
                • Bitcoin optech covers discussions around bitcoin scripting, the main divergence appears to be more expressive (computationally expensive) script, vs a witness model where the logic/computation lives off chain but he blockchain holds
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