Bitcoin Dad Pod

Episode 119: The Cat is Loose


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Halving the next hype cycle
  • 101 days and 14512 blocks left
  • News
    • ETF?

    • SEC’s bitcoin ETF tweet fiasco may end in fraud charges, lawyers say - Blockworks

    • Day 1 Trade data:

      • Grayscale: $2.3 billion
      • BlackRock: $1 billion
      • Fidelity: $700 million
      • ARK 21Shares: $288 million
      • Bitwise: $125 million

      • Coinbase did $7B in Bitcoin transfers OTC during the day.

      • Wally Street seems happy with the results

        • $200M of folks finally getting out
        • Eric Balchunas on XX

        • James Seyffart on X

        • "UPDATE: We don't have to wait till tonight for $GBTC Flows. Just -$95 million. A fraction of what I and many were thinking. This means yesterday was a huge success in my opinion. Likely going to see an inflow number for $BRRR from Valkyrie too! Day 1 Net flows sit at $625 mln

          • The FCA, Britain's consumer financial regulator, guidelines discriminate against certain customers as unsuitable to buy bitcoin
          • Economics
            • Arthur Hayes on the confluence of financial system, banking, and economic stress, which means bitcoin might dump

              • This relates to the U.S. central bank's BTFP expiring in March
              • Shinobi on Bitcoin Magazine explains the economic rational for layered scaling in terms of Jevons Paradox, the observation that increasing efficency can also increase demand, which increases price

              • Privacy
                • GrapheneOS discloses vulnerabilities actively exploited by forensic companies \ stacker news ~security
                • The team and users at GrapheneOS have uncovered a vulnerability in smartphones being actively used by digital forensics companies / exploit brokers to facilitate extractions in the after-first unlock (AFU) phase.

                  Bitcoin Education
                  • Bitcoin Optech #238 covers lightning anchors and LN Symetry, as well as reviwing some bitcoin core review club questions
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