Bitcoin Dad Pod

Episode 43: TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc


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Intro
  • Edward Chancellor Devil Take the Hindmost

  • Mercea Popeski's best quotes courtesy of Pete Rizzo

  • And his "former lover's" blog

  • News
    • Swan aquires the company behind Specter wallet

    • Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev still being held 7 weeks without charge and Dutch authorities are selling his car?

    • When Taproot? tracks taproot integration in projects and provides education to developers, bitcoin upgrades can take time to become widespread

    • Economics
      • A modern look at the Trinity Study and what it says about human's search for monetary stability

        • The Trinity Study tried to debunk a 10% withdrawl rate, not support a 4% rate
        • The Blues and the Greens, one of Paul's favorite allegories

        • Some detail and texture of the early 20th century gold standard

        • The Apple Card is worse than subprime, turns out making phones doesn't make you a good CC issuer?

        • A primer on bond investing from Lyn Alden as a way to think about the

        • Privacy
          • ErgoBTC contributes to privacy guru Michael Bazzell's pro-privacy magazine

          • Speaking of Michael Bazzell, his guide on a DIY credit freeze is a must do for all people in the USA

          • Software Updates
            • Fountain podcast app now supports a queue and carplay - Chris seemed to think that was important
            • Bitcoin Education
              • Lopp on encrypted cloud backups

              • ZeroSync - an instant blockchain syncronization proof might allow nodes to instantly sync to the bitcoin mainchain

                • Uses bitcoin's assumeValid flag and implements utreexo
                • In Bitcoin Optech #219 Anthony Towns describes a bitcoin fork for testing soft fork proposals on Signet, useful for Drivechains?

                  • Paul discusses alternative drivechain activation methods
                  • Feedback
                    • Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter

                    • Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element

                    • Boosts
                      • Lopp's bitcoin resources for learning about all aspects of bitcoin

                      • Paul's drive chain resources

                        • Run a drive chain here
                        • 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 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

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