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- 61: Illegal Horses
Pod 61:
- G: Zimbabwe bypassing inflation and sanctions with bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-can-change-zimbabwes-future?
- G: China is banning bank withdrawals, needs bitcoin https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1546469436659482624?s=20&t=8dQpJGsVgCkYPOg3srk6gw
- D: Bank of England announce crypto regulation https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40603/bank-of-england-to-announce-crypto-regulation
- R: inflation weekly: Sri Lanka has turned to anarchy https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1544931202305368064?t=truKTjr4ybT_FS3lJWmDVg&s=09
- G: the catch all thread for inflation riots globally. Dr 10% 💦💦 https://twitter.com/ab_brammer/status/1546198402559606792?s=21&t=IdfgZ48GPdt6TJJqXxvdQ
- G: Shitcoin corner: etc is a security says head of SEC: https://twitter.com/omegahodl/status/1546835336361385989?s=21&t=Dp3T-xPVm2WqfqgwuKp3cA
- G: aaaaaand finally; selling a bitcoin to have IVF : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/vx7om3/my_son_cost_me_1_btc/
1 hr 22 min - 60: Nic Farter
Pod 60:
- G: GigaChad and El Salvador still stacking, $10m for Saylor https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1542117682207678465?s=20&t=xm_CNSp-IgK6CQjze9Q8oA and $1.5m for Bukele https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1542672286490271744
- G: bitcoin conference comes over from Miami to Amsterdam https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-magazine-to-launch-bitcoin-amsterdam-conference-in-october?
- G: FTX bails out a few yield companies to save them going the way of Celsius, all this just makes bitcoin stronger https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/blockfi-and-voyager-get-bailed-out-by-ftx?
- G: Blockfi bust, lets see who supported them https://simplybitcoin.substack.com/p/bear-markets-expose-bad-actors-and
- R: Ecuadors economy has collapsed, people protesting cost of living and cost of lockdown https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1539870310547202048?s=21&t=ksEiVTpHZLlMe6RqZ8HHHw
- D: Gemini promoting their own coin. Where have we seen this before…. (crypto.com) Is this the exchange killer that puts exchanges back as opposed to propelling them forward? 🤔
- G: inflation weekly: putin calls out the west and their ‘putin inflation’ narrative https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1539888526589820929?s=21&t=QdgAGzB7TsLBAEJuHVQneg
- G: Ukraine MP wife gets caught with $20m and 1.3m Euro crossing a boarder https://twitter.com/MissValerie_/status/1542865715027271682?s=20&t=xm_CNSp-IgK6CQjze9Q8oA
- G: Russia and China building a new reserve currency to rival the dollar https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-dominance-russia-china-rouble-yuan-brics-reserve-currency-imf-2022-6
- D: Jordan Belfort has changed his mind on bitcoin https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-long-term-hedge-warns-jordan-belfort-074255765.html
- G: aaaaaaand finally: Peter Schiff gets his bank closed https://twitter.com/peterschiff/status/1543729010278113281?s=21&t=Tj4VAHrvFIJsfmrDm2tYfA
1 hr 15 min - 59: Thoughts and Prayers
Pod 59:
- G: Micro strategy is worth less than its bitcoin holdings https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/1537663778204323842?s=20&t=RFuY2jNoY8AmOLRo2W300g
- G: bitcoin not shitcoin, Lyn explains why she likes bitcoin and that shitcoins (like Solana) aren’t even in the same category https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1538669596592447488?s=20&t=jox0oAOYmKRu8TSrejbioQ
- D: Nik Bhatia is a lecturer at USC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodl4rM8TjA
- Nik has also launched his own a YouTube channel and the first lesson is on LN
- G: Another lender bites the dust, Babel this time, $3billion in outstanding loans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-17/crypto-lender-babel-follows-celsius-in-withdrawal-freeze-on-rout?
- G: more from Jack Dorsey, web 5.0 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorseys-tbd-presents-bitcoin-based-decentralized-web5 and here’s the pdf, talks about DIDs, decentralised identity https://developer.tbd.website/docs/Decentralized%20Web%20Platform%20-%20Public.pdf
- R: VC firm is close to failing, they have $18 billion under management https://twitter.com/thedefiedge/status/1537465349976694786?t=_3-Ri8bbNnADIQz895AONA&s=09
- G: shitcoin corner: Elon sued for $258 billion for promoting Doge https://watcher.guru/news/elon-musk-struck-with-a-258-billion-lawsuit-alleging-him-over-dogecoin-pyramid-scheme
1 hr 34 min - 58: Not Your Keys
Pod 58:
- G: The bitcoin academy by Jack Dorsey and Jay Z https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorsey-and-jay-z-announce-the-bitcoin-academy
- G: more from jack, web 5.0 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorseys-tbd-presents-bitcoin-based-decentralized-web5 and here’s the pdf, talks about DIDs, decentralised identity https://developer.tbd.website/docs/Decentralized%20Web%20Platform%20-%20Public.pdf
- R: blockclock mini now available, perfect desk buddy https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1532785626944311296?s=20&t=SY1jeq0H6TWxQm4AdqvxNA
- G: El Salvador tourist monies https://twitter.com/bitcoinlife__/status/1532468111466799106?s=21&t=mbzzNSCIDLbXgqgYXL99_A
- G: Biden wants bitcoin on proof of stake https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/white-house-to-reduce-bitcoin-energy-use-report
- G: inflation weekly: wallstreet bets talks some sense https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/v9m8ql/what_they_didnt_tell_us_about_todays_86_inflation/
- R: Norway to track supermarket purchases: https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket-purchases/
- G: shitcoin corner: Solana is down, again. Here are some VCs dumping their bags months ago https://twitter.com/buccocapital/status/1532149926431444993?s=21&t=kp0DUoUG3OZBUusDZ2mTkw
- G: Celsius had over $3billion in customer funds and have paused withdrawals. This Twitter user explains why they are insolvent https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1536476104986267648?s=21&t=bHakKjSjNrL70wVuJ2gn9g
- G: hack of the week: hacker gets into nft discord and then steals their bored apes https://twitter.com/watcherguru/status/1533106970630270982?s=21&t=huiwdqfhXQ0DWrarKVjjxA
1 hr 4 min - 57: Also, lol
Pod 57:
- G: we need to be more toxic https://twitter.com/lynxabi/status/1530193643411218435?s=21&t=sWbqKQn9_IGRpN6eTJpLQg
- G: Davos, aka The WEF Global Government Summit, is on and they have their own police, telling us about climate change and how to avoid the next pandemic (spoiler: get vaxxed) https://www.rebelnews.com/tags/world_economic_forum
- G: WEF CBDC? a individual carbon footprint tracker for everything you eat, travel and consume https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/uywc11/those_psychopaths_with_private_jets_will_use_cbdc/
- D: Carbon tracker calculators are seen as a way to show you care but the truth is carbonfootprint.com - A Carbon Footprint Calculator will be a new way to tax you
- R: bitcoin lesson: what happens if the WEF attack bitcoin and manage to fork it to proof of stake?
- G: inflation weekly: Dutch interviewer calls out the ECB on 8Trillion Euro balance sheet, they say it’s fine it’ll be fixed in ‘due course’  https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1529570794057224192?s=20&t=tO0nFMpVFnCvDruW93W-sgÂ
- D: market crashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_and_bear_markets
- G: Shitcoin corner: comic maker saying they don’t do nfts so if you brought one it was a scam, also lol https://twitter.com/explosm/status/1529663319698722816?s=21&t=vjuYNs4tYCZDPnWGy1Cb_Q
- G: aaaaand finally: Drake is still shilling stake dot com, won 616 bitcoin in one spin, gave away 35 bitcoin then lost the rest gambling, craziness https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/27/drake-gives-away-1000000-in-bitcoin-during-casino-live-stream-16722602/
1 hr 39 min - 54: Bukele and the 44
Pod 55:
- G: 44 countries meet with Bukele to discuss bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-announces-countries-to-discuss-bitcoin
- D: Jordan Fried explains that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger just don’t get it (the power of the network) https://youtu.be/hhxvUZ0nMBU?t=606
- G: inflation weekly: decent thread on why the US is bankrupt and the controlled demolition is their only way out https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1525293982133407744?s=20&t=kzNMOJAZZtqKsvreQC59uw
- R: based Jeff Bezos ain’t liking Biden’s reasons for inflations, calls it misinformation https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1525309091970699265?s=21&t=5piKIN2EX6RsVN8v2JCriA they hit back and then so does Jeff https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1526239512958865409?s=20&t=8sTnW4ssIwGGTOwENHJHYg
- G: shitcoin corner: saifedean being his brutal toxic self, smashes ETH and POS https://twitter.com/Lynxabi/status/1525120438048894977?s=20&t=l_OFYK-BYFuvBqFORGoGlQ
- G: Luna in their demise sold 80,000 bitcoin, bitcoin survived but this does explain the dumb in price https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1526184661155725315?s=20&t=ZZk6RCW-kht7YwXhXiG0vQ
- G: aaaaand finally: OC actor wants to sue for crypto losses https://twitter.com/ben_mckenzie/status/1496936249684369414?s=21&t=sJmQEMaAiQEI4EGueliUtg
1 hr 31 min - 54: The Inflation Dragon
Pod 54:
- G: El Salvador buys the dip, another 500 bitcoin meaning they now have 2,301 bitcoin  https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/el-salvador-buys-the-wild-bitcoin-dip-with-500-btc-purchase?
- G: Saylor confirms he is not close to liquidation even if bitcoin hit $3,500 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/microstrategy-will-never-sell-its-bitcoin-saylor-suggests
- G: Luna the ‘stable coin’ crashes 50% in 1 day and is down over 90% in a month, experiment over https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/05/10/unstable-stablecoin-how-cryptos-crash-broke-the-buck-for-terrausd/?sh=4e8195576ff4
- G: Elizabeth Warren writes letter to Fidelity begging them to not put bitcoin in peoples pensions https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/Warren%20letter.pdf
- D: Argentina moving ever closer to bitcoin https://twitter.com/guillecedaro/status/1521460169686732800?s=21&t=zkO1MO1JFH-A2UYngImLsA but then suddenly the central bank bans bitcoin trading https://blockworks.co/argentinas-central-bank-bans-crypto-trading-in-traditional-banks/
- R: what is a dusting attack https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/crypto-dusting-attack-bitcoin
- G: not your keys not your cheese, coinbase filing admits customer funds would be used to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy https://twitter.com/thewinklergroup/status/1524138330878787585?s=21&t=CHoF60vRCGJKej8o1-hjhQ
- R: shitcoin corner: yield farming to pay for your mansion mortgage https://twitter.com/tiktokinvestors/status/1494076067669168130?s=21&t=cbMo1KD-0MFf7zjrXHtV-w
- G: aaaaaaaand finally: just won a UFC fight, announces an NFT and also that he had herpes, twice https://twitter.com/UFCFightPass/status/1523421460873695232?s=20&t=FVryiKBWt7HbkjYgyzdHBQ
1 hr 35 min - 53: The Orange Pill
Pod 53:
- G: Barber news: faster payments issue, just accept bitcoin bruh
- G: Joe Rogan guest has been orange pilled https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1521905250801754112?s=20&t=W_L4E6cm8UY3nihKi_CKtw
- G: Tesla says bitcoin is an alternative to cash https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-is-a-liquid-alternative-to-cash-says-elon-musks-tesla
- G: is this fud or is saylor over leveraged? https://twitter.com/hedgeye/status/1521829947081474049?s=21&t=nVrTjF4L6Yj8HTTiERfGGA
- T: Same theme- a whales sale https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-funds-saw-largest-single-week-of-outflows-since-june-2021/amp
- G: Revolut have shitcoin lessons now https://twitter.com/BitcoinLessons_/status/1521881050401677313?s=20&t=SJg1EUwkvZyFwlrotClUKw
- G: Lesson of the week: BIP119 proposal, it’s a complicated one https://protos.com/bip-119-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bitcoin-proposal/
- G: FUD of the week: the WEF pushing the ‘change the code not the climate’ again saying bitcoin should move to proof of stake and describe it as a ‘simple code change’ https://twitter.com/wef/status/1519119185422524416?s=20&t=jSPxjPdy8uYNaZnUuKHQdA
- G: shitcoin corner: CoffeeZilla again; FTX CEO describes ‘yield farming’ as a ponzi and just says this is the new world of finance https://youtu.be/C6nAxiym9oc
- T: aaaaaaand finally: you talk about dumb money every week going into NFT, here is some https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61321555.amp
1 hr 45 min - 52: Ukraine ban bitcoin
Pod 52:
- G: Central African Republic accepts bitcoin as a currency https://forbes.mc/article/first-african-country-adopt-bitcoin-legal-currency-central-african-republic or have they https://247newsbulletin.com/markets/221303.html
- G: Panama ‘blockchain’ laws makes bitcoin ‘defacto legal tender’ i.e. no taxes https://twitter.com/AbelitoPanama/status/1517258973027647489?s=20&t=4wAzBzOlJKagMpAPBjwasA
- D: Israel adds China’s Yuan to its reserve holdings. Wrong move they need bitcoin but interesting move that they’ve decreased in dollars. https://twitter.com/i/events/1517052230163128323?s=21&t=BOBkbfV9E0csG246fDLluQ
- D: Eric Weiss orange piller to Michael Saylor mentions that Lightening could be used for Stable coins (58mins in) and this could smash CBDC’s happening out the park - https://youtu.be/tXEM7Yj_fg0
- G: Ukraine central bank bans buying bitcoin with local currency, happy to accept millions in donations using it though https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1517452450441187328?s=21&t=JoBN1myD1vsijahfZ0HWZg
- R: Inflation weekly: IMF admits they gone done fooked up https://twitter.com/plan_marcus/status/1517200605688832001?s=20&t=MbWEA_420wazrl84boHAEA
- G: compass mining switching off miners in Russia, customers have to take whatever they sell for https://twitter.com/modl_hodi/status/1517169078984753158?s=21&t=5Z-auh9UpX3AYrQd_9GmDQ
- G: bitcoiners have low financial literacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bitcoin-investors-tend-to-have-low-financial-literacy-according-to-boc/
- G: shitcoin corner: Zuby caught shilling scams, bitcoiners call him out and he goes on the attack https://twitter.com/zubymusic/status/1516908727022063621?s=21&t=GbNOzLzT5tl1SaK7I4zbDg
- R: aaaaaaand finally: Biden wants to make military vehicles carbon neutral whilst flexing his gas guzzling corvette https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/biden-calls-for-climate-friendly-military-fleet-on-earth-day/
1 hr 52 min - 51: Free Speech
Pod 51:
- D: Bitcoin asset class https://thebitcoinlayer.substack.com/p/bitcoin-versus-the-dollar?s=w
- G: Wikipedia stops accepting bitcoin saying it is bad for the environment https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/wikipedia-community-votes-to-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency-donations/
- R: Elon buying the other 90% of Twitter, Justin Son being a douche again https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/14/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter/ the REEEEEing is spectacular https://twitter.com/thoughtcrime___/status/1514573423598465026?s=20&t=VL8j9XF4PkNkaGrKqHs6AQ
- G: hack of the week: Guy installing security system steals $600,000 from a Trezor he found the password too https://www.tampabay.com/news/breaking-news/2022/04/09/pinellas-park-man-stole-nearly-600000-in-cryptocurrency-police-say/
- D: Inflation weekly. The price of a Fredo bar https://twitter.com/i/events/1514180958714580993?s=21&t=U3hlwFil3TBZa_-Vj5LqMA
- G: shitcoin corner: NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet sold for $2.9m last year, gets relisted and sells for $280 https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/13/jack-dorseys-first-tweet-nft-went-on-sale-for-48m-it-ended-with-a-top-bid-of-just-280/
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A weekly podcast by 4 bitcoin plebs that discuss the most recent bitcoin news. We venture into wider business topics, touch on sport but everything comes back to bitcoin and why we're bullish on if we…
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