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Bitcoin Dad Pod

The Bitcoin Dad

The Bitcoin Dad is here to explain the context around the monetary revolution that is Bitcoin. The technological, social, and financial complexities of Bitcoin are hard to understand and your Bitcoin Dad will give you a foundation to make up your own mind. He"ll cover news, history, and a lot of practical projects that you can do yourself to get started with Bitcoin!

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Episode 103: Macro Eruptions

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/10/08

Pre-Show Volcano Energy Bitcoin Mining Pool Goes Live - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/volcano-energy-bitcoin-mining-pool-goes-live) El Salv launched the volcano powered bitcoin mining pool (https://twitter.com/CryptoTea_/status/1709990640396964017) News Chainalysis lays off 150 Employees (https://archive.ph/UEwqA#selection-559.0-559.100) As Chill Of Crypto Winter Persists The US Prosecutor also wants to prevent discovery of

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1:02:50

Episode 102: Financial Repression is Literally Here

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/09/29

Pre-Show Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/29/three-arrows-capital-co-founder-zhu-arrested-in-singapore-airport-sentenced-four-months-in-prison/) News Ripple bails out Fortress Trust after hackers steal customer assets (https://coingeek.com/ripple-bails-out-fortress-trust-after-hackers-steal-customer-assets/) Mike Belshe on X: I really don’t want to talk about it at all, because it

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1:20:50

Episode 101: Trustee Me

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/09/24

Pre-Show Optimism foundation is dumping tokens (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/21/optimism-foundation-sells-157m-op-tokens-citing-treasury-management), they are the technological provider of Coinbase's 'base' protocol News Amboss.space has a new lightning node liquidity (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amboss-launches-hydro/) provisioning system. Must trade sats for 'ambucks' The Mt Gox, an early crypto exchange that failed spectacularly, trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi

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57:01

Episode 100: Fortress Not Trustworthy

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/09/16

Pre-Show A very reasonable discussion on HN around the WTF Happened in 1971 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482646) website, the world is complicated, there are many ways to interpret history and the present, none are particularly satisfying News Binance.US cuts third of staff as CEO Brian Shroder leaves (https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-us-cuts-third-of-staff-ceo-brian-shroder-leaves-report) Binance.US, the United States arm of the crypto exchange, has cut around a third of its staff

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50:02

Episode 99: Accounting for Privacy

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/09/09

Pre-Show Rumor? Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca to leave the company after "Recover feature" scandal 👀 (https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1699741300109832623) Alex Mashinsky's assets frozen by US court as part of criminal case (https://cointelegraph.com/news/alex-mashinsky-assets-frozen-court-criminal-case) News Long-Awaited Bitcoin Accounting Rules to Capture Rises, Dips (https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/long-awaited-bitcoin-accounting-rules-to-capture-rises-dips) 🚨

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1:20:40

Episode 98: Working on Privacy

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/09/04

Pre-Show Sparrow turns 3 today. Public rls - Sep 1st 2020 Sparrow Wallet v1.7.9: Wallet Accounts Summary Dialog & More (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sparrow-wallet-v1-7-9/) News Drivechain Drama Michael Tidwell on X: "10 days ago, I tweeted on Drivechain's (DC) purpose and sidechains (SC). I've gained insights and I'll detail the 8 reasons I've seen that are against it. I will playfully denote people's names to various arguments even though these people are likely not the originators of the…" / X

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1:20:50

Episode 97: Artificial Targets

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/08/27

Pre-Show So, That's the End of Bitcoin Then (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/20/so-thats-the-end-of-bitcoin-then/?sh=2f7e86705d71), pack it up everyone, let's go home 14 years ago “Bitcoin Is Dead” - The #1 Database of Notable Bitcoin Skeptics (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/) News Economics The discussion around the Federal Reserve raising their inflation target to 3% (https://archive.li/VehhJ) assumes many things: Strong relationship between FFs and

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1:02:15

Episode 96: Paypal is a Crypto Company

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/08/19

Pre-Show Sam is back in jail (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/17/sam-bankman-fried-is-now-in-jail/), it only took a few months of witness tampering to revoke his bail FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail over witness tampering (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/us-judge-sends-sam-bankman-fried-to-jail-over-witness-tampering.html) News The bitcoin wallet, only affects seeds generated by libbitcoin library, MilkSad vulnerability is fascinating (https://milksad.info/) and ties into the history of

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Episode 95: Where's my ETF SEC-ski?

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/08/13

Pre-Show Ark 21Shares Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Application Decision Delayed by SEC (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/11/ark-21shares-bitcoin-etf-application-decision-pushed-by-sec/) The SEC has a total of 240 days to make a final decision on an application after it starts reviewing one. The SEC is giving the general public three weeks to weigh in on the proposal itself, and an additional five weeks to respond to those initial slate of comments. SEC Sounds Kinda Bullish... Bitcoin Magazine on

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58:04

Episode 94: Fitch Better Have My Money

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/08/06

Pre-Show Thank you Amy for a wonderful summary (https://amycastor.com/2023/08/03/crypto-collapse-terra-judge-repudiates-ripple-finding-razzlekhan-cops-a-plea-binances-fdusd-stablecoin-coindesk-sold-smart-contracts-still-stupid/) of the last week's crypto screwups and absurdities Payment problems are affecting our friends on Etsy, the online marketplace's payments system is holding up to 75% of sellers funds (https://qz.com/etsy-scrambling-avert-seller-strike-over-payment-reserv-1850702861) due to

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54:54

Episode 93: FedNot

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/29

News Fednow, the Federal Resrves new payment system for instant payments, has finally launched (https://www.frbservices.org/news/press-releases/072023-fednow-live-announcement) with '35 early-adopting banks and credit unions, as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service' The US House of Representatives Fianncial Services Comittee, a House subgroup focusing on financial law, submitted a bipartisan crypto market bill

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51:00

Episode 91: Stock to Farce

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/22

Pre-Show The FTX Foundation planned to buy the island of Naru (https://twitter.com/0x_tracy/status/1682341544009801728?s=12&t=E9EIlRX-vHxbQ8g23lQU3A) to build a supervillain's lair A bitmex blog post discusses Gary Gensler's history (https://blog.bitmex.com/genslers-done-it-all-before/) as CFTC comissioner during alleged gold price manipulation that turned out to be justified (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20) News Crosseus, a bitcoin institutional investor, reminds us that the

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1:04:54

Episode 90: XRP Army Strikes Back

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/16

Pre-Show Celcius CEO Alex Mashinsky was arrested (https://archive.li/LdCF6) for fraud, finally. News Economics Lyn Alden's latest market update (https://www.lynalden.com/july-2023-newsletter/) builds on her article charting the relationship between interest rates and inflation (https://www.lynalden.com/inflation-vs-interest-rates/). Since conventional central bank focused economics is posited on interest rates influencing inflation, it's a precient topic. Lyn points to the International Monetary

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49:04

Episode 89: Not at all about Bitcoin

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/09

Pre-Show BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is now promoting bitcoin (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-on-bitcoin-regulation-and-esg/) on tv news Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann (https://twitter.com/PRHillmann/status/1677070523740884992) and Vice President for Compliance Steven Christie (https://twitter.com/SKChristie9/status/1677116795499712512) confirmed in tweets on Friday morning in Asia that they are leaving the world’s largest crypto exchange. The confirmations came

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1:14:17

Episode 88: ETF Prime Time

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/03

Pre-Show Crypto Firm Prime Trust Placed Into Receivership (https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-firm-prime-trust-placed-into-receivership-7554247), affecting many bitcoin businesses Crypto Firms Swan, Coinbits Disclose Prime Trust Ties as Fallout Continues - Decrypt (https://decrypt.co/146601/swan-coinbits-disclose-prime-trust-ties-fallout-continues) Alistair Milne on Twitter (https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1674801660382830594): "This address: bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2 ..

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1:57:27

Episode 87: Interview: Scaling, Development, and...

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/07/01

Interview: Paul Sztorc Paul's vision of scaling is built on his proposal for drivechains (https://drivechain.xyz/), sidechains that hold coins using bitcoin miner escarow Pauls proposal of thunder, a way to scale sidechains (https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/thunder/) on bitcoin The mathematical limitations (https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/lightning-limitations/) of lightning network scaling on bitcoin Hal Phinney on intrade (https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/intrades-condithtml) and prediction

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30:41

Episode 86: Accidental Orange Pill

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/06/25

Pre-Show Coinmetrics can accurately predict bitcoin global energy use (https://web.archive.org/web/20230615093116/https://5264302.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5264302/special-insights/coinmetrics-research_the-signal-and-the-nonce.pdf) by fingerprinting ASIC chips through their nonce values The worst data scientist RE bitcoin energy debates his model with bitcoiners (https://stephanlivera.com/episode/487/), give it a listen News The NYT laments the end of the hallucination of a sustainable

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Episode 85: Privately Paying the World

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/06/17

News Apple banned and then unbanned the zeus lightning app (https://nitter.net/evankaloudis/status/1669297584140165123#m) from its app store Part of a wider policy of banning bitcoin apps (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/the-battle-for-zaps-on-damus-continues/) that facilitate payments Another poposed crypto infrastructure bill (https://www.cato.org/blog/decentralization-defined-house-crypto-discussion-draft-offers-glimmer-hope-us-crypto-policy) in the US House of Representatives looks like another

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1:23:09

Episode 84: Patience is Golden

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/06/11

News Sec complaint against Coinbase (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.599908/gov.uscourts.nysd.599908.1.0.pdf) is an interesting read and includes the Coinbase self-custodial wallet as a target The U.S. Justice Department claims two Russian nationals laundered 647k bitcoin (https://archive.is/MXuRz) from the Mt. Gox hack Economics and Banking Arthur preaches patience (https://blog.bitmex.com/patience-is-beautiful/) in waiting for the fiat liquidity situation to work out The

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Episode 83: Interview: Burak on Ark

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/06/08

Interview: Burak on ARK Burak's Links His blog (https://burakkeceli.medium.com/) on medium The ark project (arkpill.me) website Ark telegram (https://t.me/ark_network_community) group for asking questions Links Related to Ark Conversation A description of ark as a coinpool protocol (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/31/) in the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #253 Ruben Somsens' ark explanation (https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a394beb1dea9e47e981216768e007454) on github Feedback Remember

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