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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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1:06:57

Episode 82: UTXO is OUR Word

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2023/06/05

Pre-Show Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant, Rules US Federal Judge in a Historic Decision (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/border-searches-of-cell-phones-require-a-warrant-us-federal-judge/) News Lots of crypto schadenfreude in Amy Castor's newsletter (https://amycastor.com/2023/05/26/crypto-collapse-fahrenheit-buys-celsius-dcg-may-be-broke-hong-kong-cracks-down-binance-commingling-how-bitfinex-was-hacked/) Economics and Banking The EU's cbdc is using a UTXO model

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1:12:45

Episode 81: Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for Thee

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2023/05/28

Pre-Show Bottlepay shuts down again (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bottlepay-is-shutting-down/) News High bitcoin fees are leading to an explosion of scaling ideas, including Barak the lightning slayer's ARK, an offchain private scaling solution (https://www.arkpill.me/faq) Barak explains it deeply (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021694.html) on the linux mailing list WalletScrutiny has been taken down again

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1:22:02

Episode 80: Hardware Wallet Web Backup

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2023/05/20

Pre-Show Etherium transactions stopped finalizing briefly (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/05/17/ethereums-loss-of-finality-what-happened/) last week but it didn't really cause issues News Altcoins Ledger Recovery is a terrible idea poorly executed (https://stacker.news/items/179721) but its understandable that this model of crypto custody would be tried eventually How Nunchuk multisig wallet works (https://nunchuk.io/how-it-works), an alternative inheritance strategy Seth also explains what's

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Episode 79: Interview: Ordinals, Inscriptions &...

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2023/05/17

A brief history of the brief history of ordinal inscriptions (https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-07-2023) on bitcoin from glassnode Another introduction to ordinals (https://blog.bitgo.com/the-rise-of-ordinal-inscriptions-dbe7cb0336c6) from crypto company Bitgo Bitcoin developer Andrew Poelstra on why banning arbitrary data (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html) from the bitcoin blockchain isn't feasible The Ordinal docs

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Episode 78: Going Full Editorial

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2023/05/15

News Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-held-on-exchanges-hits-5-year-low/) PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/08/paypal-to-acquire-cryptocurrency-custody-startup-curv/) Commercial Real Estate is the next legacy asset to implode and a test sale (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/05/09/what-are-older-office-towers-worth-heres-the-first-sale-in-san-franciscos-new-era-of-office-cre/) indicates prices could fall

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Episode 77: Bitcoin: TNG w/ Anthony Park

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/05/10

Interview: Anthony S. Park - Bitcoin Executor Note: no affiliation with Anthony and this conent is focused on practices in the United States Make a plan since dealing with an estate (https://anthonyspark.com/e313-how-to-think-like-your-bitcoin-heirs/) is harder than you think Anthony on not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good (https://anthonyspark.com/e308-have-a-placeholder-bitcoin-inheritance-plan/) in your estate planning Say hi to Anthony on twitter at @btcexecutor

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1:19:07

Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody Cares

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2023/05/06

Pre-Show The AdoptingBTC conference (https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab23/) in El Salvador on November 7th News The U.S. Whitehouse is proposing a new tax (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/biden-admin-bitcoin-mining-tax/) on electricity used by bitcoin miners Jen W, a journalist at NYMAG, has a great expose (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/is-the-federal-government-trying-to-kill-off-crypto.html) on the regulatory hurdles being used to drive "Crypto" businesses out of the United States Glassnode, a

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1:01:05

Episode 75: Reaction to Huw Pill

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2023/05/03

Who is Huw Pill? Bank of England career page (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/huw-pill/biography) The 2% inflation target is not scientific (https://qz.com/2022696/where-did-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target-come-from) it came from an off the cuff remark by a New Zealand official The podcast in question (https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/beyond-unprecedented-post-pandemic-economy) Edward Chancellor's excellent book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Take_the_Hindmost) on

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1:12:13

Episode 74: A Checking Account to Rule Them All

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2023/04/30

Pre-Show Millions of dollars lost while moving through an airport (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-police-investigating-c20-million-gold-heist-toronto-airport-2023-04-20/) contrasts with over $10 million in BTC (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/12y32xa/over_10_million_in_btc_was_sent_in_1_transaction/) was sent in 1 transaction this morning, and it cost the sender $5 News Better update LND lightning nodes (https://stacker.news/items/170942) as it looks like a

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1:30:28

Episode 73: Nuclear Buyback

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2023/04/25

Pre-Show Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail (https://www.theblock.co/post/227329/alexey-pertsev-tornado-cash-developer-free-pending-trial) after 6 months in jail waiting a trial News Economics and Banking The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Commitee (TBAC (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financing-the-government/quarterly-refunding/treasury-borrowing-advisory-committee-tbac)), proposed a Treasury buyback program

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1:11:37

Episode 72: Cracked Critique

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2023/04/17

Pre-Show Sweden hikes taxes on datacenters (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/14/sweden-drives-final-nail-into-its-bitcoin-mining-industry-with-tax-hike/) bitcoin miners included Riot Blockchain's critique of the NYT (https://www.riotplatforms.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/150/riot-platforms-inc-statement-the-new-york-times)'s latest anti-bitcoin mining (https://archive.is/MQ7fm) article News A critique of Bitcoin's value proposition

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1:25:03

Episode 71: Dimon Handz

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2023/04/09

BDP 71 Pre-Show Coin CEO Bob Lee was stabbed to death (https://protos.com/mobilecoin-exec-bob-lee-stabbed-to-death-in-san-francisco-attack/) in San Francisco News The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down (https://paxful.com/sign-up-transition) and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures 2016 bitcoin talk forums were already suspicious (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1621766.0) of paxful Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved

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1:02:40

Episode 70: Derivative enforcement leaves few options...

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2023/04/02

Intro Silk Road Crypto Sale: US Govt Sells 9,800 BTC, Aims to Offload 41,500 More (https://u.today/silk-road-crypto-sale-us-govt-sells-9800-btc-aims-to-offload-41500-more) News CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/us-regulator-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-and-boss-changpeng-zhao), the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to

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1:23:29

Episode 69: Steady lads! Deploying more capital...

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2023/03/25

Intro SBF gave buddies at Modulu Capital nearly half a billion dollars of stolen funds, and they're giving it back (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/23/ftx-bankruptcy-estate-to-claw-back-460m-from-modulo-capital), guilty conscience? Do Kwan, founder of crypto-scam Terra/Luna, has been arrested in Montenegro (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/24/do-kwon-charged-due-in-montenegro-court-for-extradition-hearing-afp/) News Coinbase, a U.S. cryto exchange, recieved a notice of impending

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1:32:10

Episode 68: Then they fight you[r bank]

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2023/03/20

Intro SBF, former CEO of crypto Ponzi scheme FTX, stole literally billions (https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2023/03/16/sam-bankman-fried-transferred-22bn-in-ftx-customer-funds-for-personal-use-filings-show/) of customer deposits and investor funds Forbes nails it again (https://twitter.com/nights62/status/1636438392824283136) ## News 🎶 Convert any audio to text 📝 Signature Bank, the 'other' crypto-focused bank, has been nationalized

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Episode 67: Bad Week for Bankers

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2023/03/12

Intro If you can shutdown your blockchain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/09/hedera-turns-off-services-after-network-irregularities) when 'network irregularities' are detected...it's not a decentralized system Lido, the centralized staking crypto as a service company, has a an unregistered security LDO that crashed on rumors of a Wells Notice (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=lido-token-price-tanks-after-podcaster-spreads-inaccurate-rumor-of-wells-notice) News A B + The US treasury has

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1:03:40

Episode 66: Bitcoin, HODL it tight

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2023/03/06

Pre-Show Bantz SBF's going retro as the US Department of Justice proposes no smartphones (https://cointelegraph.com/news/u-s-attorney-seeks-to-narrow-sam-bankman-fried-s-bail-terms-use-only-flip-phones) or internet access as a bail condition News El Salvador is suddenly a wall street darling (https://archive.is/cPlVy) after repaying some outstanding debt There has been reporting that El Salvador's civil servants haven't been paid...but hard to verify Silvergate, a US regional bank turned into a

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1:13:37

Episode 65: Just add more blockchains

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2023/02/27

Intro Ordinals force introspection on how initial block download (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/117057) works in bitcoin News Coinbase, a crypto exchange, is building an ETH L2 chain (https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base) called 'base', that will be a super chain (https://stack.optimism.io/docs/understand/explainer/#the-value-of-scalable-decentralized-compute-is-immense) one day Its built on the ETH L2 optimism (https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-optimism/) The U.S. Federal

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1:15:16

Episode 64: Still Waiting for Constructive Feedback

Bitcoin Dad Pod ·

2023/02/20

Intro Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief (https://geyser.fund/project/earthquakereliefturkey) SBF's mysterious bail bond guarantors (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html) were revealed to be ... family friends? No independant examiner (https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/ftx-bankruptcy-judge-rejects-independent-examiner-appointment-motion-fearing-100-million-loss-202302151650) for the FTX fraud means no

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Episode 63: Non-Consensual Financial Choking

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2023/02/12

Intro Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief (https://geyser.fund/project/earthquakereliefturkey) News The UK believes that 'Britcoin' (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/06/britcoin-digital-currency-could-be-in-use-by-end-of-decade),a government digital curency, will be deployed this decade Localbitcoins, a decentralized-ish peer to peer bitcoin exchange, is shuting down operations (https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/) Localbitcoins was mentioned in the bitzlato

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