News Apple banned and then unbanned the zeus lightning app from its app store Part of a wider policy of banning bitcoin apps that facilitate payments Another poposed crypto infrastructure bill in the US House of Representatives looks like another Left/Right issue River, a bitcoin financial company, issued a report on bitcoin vs legacy payments Response to 2022's ECB report that concluded bitcoin can't win vs CBDCs Economics and Banking The Cato Institute, an American libertarian thinktank, polled americans about CBDCs and the results speak to the complexity of money, status, and politics The SEC may be talking back its own limitations on allowing a b2b CBDC Privacy Also from the CATO CBDC poll, some American's might be ok with government surveillance in their own home if it protected against crime Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #255 covers a discussion on the taproot annex a place for additional data for taproot transactions as well as the recent silent payments BIP Network node count is one measure of decentralization, but there are subjective elements Feedback Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element, details here Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at [email protected] or directly to Chris at [email protected] 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) + Alby for boosts Castamatic (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting Feedback Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element, details here Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at [email protected] or directly to Chris at [email protected] 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) + Alby for boosts Castamatic (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting