Pre-Show Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode "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 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 discovered that CSW's 'newly found' Satoshi evidence is overwhelmingly fake and COPA has decilined a desperate last minute settlment offer from CSW CSW Forgeries-COPAvWright.pdf Economics Chinese stocks suffer, likely due to reduced bank lending, another sign of tightening global monetary conditions Fed Unexpectedly Kills Bank "Free Money" Bailout-Fund Arbitrage Scheme As It Ends BTFP Program | ZeroHedge ETF: FTX Still Haunting BTC Users FTX sold about $1 bln of Grayscale's bitcoin ETF since its approval Vijay Boyapati 🦢 on X: "1/ There was a much more important fraud than SBF's embezzlement that took place in 2022. It was a fraud (allegedly) perpetrated by one of the oldest companies in the space, @DCGco and its CEO, @BarrySilbert. Time for a thread 👇" / X James Seyffart on X Update for day 10 of the #Bitcoin ETF Cointucky derby. Volumes and flows are both slowing down a bit. Another slight negative day on flows. Total net flows stand at +$744 million. $IBIT likely crosses 2 billion in assets today Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses Following the disclosure of the address, Bitwise also started receiving random donations and even inscriptions. Eric Balchunas on X Privacy Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider Altcoins A series of articles give a high level overview of the patchwork of red flags that Tether is made of A Tether insider, whose Thai alias is a 'principle' on Bitfinex's Bahamanian registration, is alleged to have largely funded the Brexit campaign A December article that analyses Tether's on-chain activity and money printing via loans Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech covers a consensus failure in btcd with limited risk vs a recent Etherium consensus failure reveal 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