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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 123: Hiatus

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2024/02/22

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Episode 122: Getting Off Zero...Knowledge

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2024/02/10

Pre-ShowCSW is bombing his cross-examination (https://blog.bitmex.com/copa-vs-csw-day-2-thoughts/) in the COPA case, trying to explain the miraculous circumstances that created the hundreds of a News FTX customers are being paid back in full (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ftx-may-be-able-to-repay-all-crypto-customers-and-creditors/ar-BB1hRXKx)! ...at the bitcoin price of $16k Citrea claims to be a prototype zero knowledge Etherium Virtual Machine (zk-EVM) built on bitcoin

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1:01:59

Episode 121: Can I get your...GPS cords?

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2024/02/04

Pre-Show Harvard report on housing in the USA (https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/files/Harvard_JCHS_Americas_Rental_Housing_2024.pdf) makes the obvious conclusion that homelessness is all about prices, wages are stagnant or falling while housing is getting more expensive due to both constrained supply and the use of real estate as an investment vehicle Dashboard | Truflation (https://truflation.com/dashboard) Gavin Newsom Witnesses Shoplifting

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Episode 120: Don't Settle for an ETF

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2024/01/28

Pre-Show Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/swan-mining-announced/) "We're mining around 4.5 EH - closing in on 1% of the network- with equipment in hand to ramp quickly to 8 EH," announced the company. News Blink plugin (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blink-plugin-for-btcpay-server/) for BTC Payserver gives custodial lightning payments/receipts to anyone running a BTC Payserver The COPA lawsuit, that will determine if CSW can call himself Satoshi, has

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1:01:06

Episode 119: The Cat is Loose

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2024/01/13

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 (https://blockworks.co/news/sec-x-hack-legal-action) 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. (https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1745565435758559460) Wally Street seems happy with the results

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Episode 118: The Theme is Incentives

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2024/01/06

Pre-Show A personal account of living in Turkiye under soaring inflation (https://stacker.news/items/376570), many trends described here are also happening in the US and Europe News The financial incentives of bitcoin are no joke, as Blackrock Names JPMorgan as Authorized Participant for Spot Bitcoin ETF (https://news.bitcoin.com/blackrock-names-jpmorgan-as-authorized-participant-for-spot-bitcoin-etf-despite-jamie-dimon-wanting-to-ban-crypto/) Blackrock’s latest amended filing shows that it has

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Episode 117: There Never Was a Second Best

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2023/12/30

News Institutional adoption is changing bitcoin's role in finance, is that good or bad? The Fragility of Bitcoin: Potential Challenges and Resilience (https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/the-fragility-of-bitcoin-potential) Despite these challenges, there is reason to believe Bitcoin’s resilience shown to date will allow it to continue to push ahead into the future Nigeria removes bitcoin banking ban (https://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-central-bank-lifts-february-2021-crypto-prohibition-order/) in

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1:02:43

Episode 116: Liquid Courage

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2023/12/23

Pre-Show The bitcointalk.org original hodl post is 9 years old (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0) and expresses many of the sentiments of the Game Stop Apes of January 2021 News Stacker news, a reddit clone that upvotes via lightning, has started OFAC complicance (https://stacker.news/items/354028?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) due to fears about US Financial regulation This might tie in with the politics of US Payroll (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/payroll-providers-power-respect/)

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Episode 115: Mainstream or Decentralized

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2023/12/16

Pre-Show At least one person is living on bitcoin (https://blog.bitmex.com/getting-paid-in-btc-in-sin/) in Singapore, all you need is a master's in finance and higher income than expenses News Warren Expands Coalition of Banking Committee Support for Bill Cracking Down on Crypto’s Use in Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, Sanctions Evasion | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

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Episode 114: When in Doubt, Break Glass

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2023/12/10

Pre-Show Chainalysis' global crypto adoption survey demonstrates that grass roots adoption surges in hostile monetary environments (https://archive.ph/wIkRQ) Financial Distress Leads To Surge In Early 401(k) Withdrawals, Bank Report Shows (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmenickella/2023/11/01/financial-distress-leads-to-surge-in-early-401k-withdrawals-bank-report-shows/?sh=30632d8f7fdc) Seattle is a victim of its own success | The Seattle Times

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Episode 113: Wet Hot Financial Surveillance

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2023/12/01

Pre-Show Bad entropy will get your bitcoins stolen (https://nitter.net/mononautical/status/1728946778798793126?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) News This cycle's bitcoin environmental FUD is probably going to be water usage (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23979858/bitcoin-mine-cryptocurrency-water-use-analysis-energy) Shiny new FUD ammo takes media by storm! (https://stacker.news/items/333497) Rebuttal of BBCNews article, and the Underlying Study, on Bitcoin Water Usage – Batcoinz

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Episode 112: Interview: Peter Todd Critiquing Drivechain

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2023/11/28

Interview: Peter Todd Critiquing Drivechains Peter's technical critique (https://petertodd.org/2023/drivechains) document Peter's blog (https://petertodd.org) OpenTimestamps website (https://opentimestamps.org/) Previous Interviews with Paul Storcz (on Drivechains) TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc (https://bitcoindadpod.fireside.fm/43) Interview: Scaling, Development, and Drivechains with Paul Sztorc (https://bitcoindadpod.fireside.fm/87) Feedback Remember to get in touch

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Episode 111: Strangling the Golden Duck

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2023/11/25

Pre-Show Mempool Observer seems to have caught bitcoin mining pool F2pool not mining OFAC sanctioned bitcoin addresses (https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/) The SEC thinks polygon and solana are securities (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/kraken-sued-by-us-sec) but this is likely insurance against losing an identical lawsuit against Coinbase News Binance's CEO CZ will plead guilty (https://archive.ph/gp2uM) to U.S. money laundering charges, and the exchange will pay

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Episode 110: Interview: Waxwing

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2023/11/22

Waxwing's blog (https://reyify.com/blog) JoinMarket (https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver), WaxWing's coinjoin software, link to the github repo Previous interview on coinjoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/joinmarket-lead-on-bitcoin-mixing-future) His PathCoin presentation (https://talks.adoptingbitcoin.org/media/adopting-bitcoin-2023/submissions/RR8XA9/resources/pathcoinpres2_quexSf4.pdf) from Adopting Bitcoin 2023 Feedback Remember to get in touch

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Episode 109: Maliable Guildlines

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2023/11/18

Pre-Show ETF hype fading? End of an 8 day approval window Bloomberg's James Seyffart says still a 90% chance approval by Jan 10th 2024. James Seyffart on X (https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1724469793422508533) "Okay, we're nearing in on deadline dates for 3 spot #Bitcoin ETF applications. I want to get ahead of it because there's a pretty good chance we'll see delay orders from the SEC. Delays WOULD NOT change anything about our views & 90% odds for 19b-4 approval by Jan 10, 2024 Bitcoin News

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Episode 108: The End Game is Here

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2023/11/12

Pre-Show The PlanB indicator is flashing bull market (https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1722947159308259733?t=5tu5Eb_ilj387fA9ljWFAA&s=09) /s News Adopting Bitcoin Conference stats: 1100 attendees 350 Salvadoran Over 150 sessions El Salvador’s Rating Raised by S&P on Local Debt Refinancing (https://archive.ph/Y0YUN) Remember that the downgrade was partially attributed to bitcoin

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Episode 107: Real Time Kollisions

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2023/11/05

Pre-Show Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fed-threatens-to-sue-bitcoin-magazine/) The rollout of FedNow, a realtime payments system, has been predictably slow (https://archive.ph/uZJ25#selection-2527.101-2527.109) with a focus on bank-to-bank xfers It compares favorably with the adoption of RTP (https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp), a private realtimes payment network RTP is faster and cheaper

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Episode 106: The Trust is Bust

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2023/10/28

Pre-Show Main stream financial blogger Rich Dad Poor Dad views bitcoin as a hedge against Central Bank Risk (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/rich-dad-poor-dad-kiyosaki-next-stop-for-bitcoin-price-130000) Actually Kiyosaki is quite shady (https://slate.com/business/2016/02/robert-kiyosaki-s-ongoing-legal-dispute-says-everything-about-the-shadiness-of-personal-finance-gurus.html) despite his financial success, typical bitcoin tout amiright? Economics The US Social Security Trust Fund is still

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Episode 105: Europe's on the Move

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2023/10/21

Pre-Show Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2023/html/ecb.pr231018~111a014ae7.en.html) ECB's Digital Euro CBDC Project Moves to 'Preparation' Phase (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/18/digital-euro-project-moves-to-preparation-phase/) The actual report details how the digital euro is basically a credit card (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/investigation/profuse/shared/files/dedocs/ecb.dedocs231018.en.pdf) processing

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Episode 104: Trial Gate

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2023/10/14

Pre-Show A busy week for Bitcoin Hardware Trezor's bitcoin only firmware (https://trezor.io/trezor-safe-3-bitcoin-only) anniversery hardware signing device is very orange Swan Partners with Blockstream to Launch Swan Vault (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/swan-partners-with-blockstream-to-launch-swan-vault/) "Integrating Blockstream Jade's multi-signature and hardware-based authentication into Swan Vault elevates the standards of Bitcoin collaborative custody," said Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory

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