Pre-Show Rumor? Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca to leave the company after "Recover feature" scandal 👀 Alex Mashinsky's assets frozen by US court as part of criminal case News Long-Awaited Bitcoin Accounting Rules to Capture Rises, Dips 🚨 EXPLAINED: Bitcoin Accounting Rule Change Privacy JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr Introducing: JoinStr 🦃 A Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation using NOSTR \ stacker news ~nostr Altcoins Blockchain Privacy and...

Pre-Show Sparrow turns 3 today. Public rls - Sep 1st 2020 Sparrow Wallet v1.7.9: Wallet Accounts Summary Dialog & More 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 NVK GM 🌞⚡️: Shitcoin "new chains"...

Pre-Show So, That's the End of Bitcoin Then, pack it up everyone, let's go home 14 years ago “Bitcoin Is Dead” - The #1 Database of Notable Bitcoin Skeptics News Economics The discussion around the Federal Reserve raising their inflation target to 3% assumes many things: Strong relationship between FFs and Inflation Philips curve relationship between Employment and Inflation These are not small assumptions! Six AI Themes to Consider - Lyn Alden discusses expectations around AI...

Pre-Show Sam is back 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 News The bitcoin wallet, only affects seeds generated by libbitcoin library, MilkSad vulnerability is fascinating and ties into the history of bitcoin, some amazing personalities, the changes in bitcoin's culture over time Andreas is no longer updateing his books, not that its his fault, just part of the CF Bank of Ireland IT...

Pre-Show Ark 21Shares Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Application Decision Delayed 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 Twitter: "NEW - 🇺🇸 SEC on ARK Invest's spot #Bitcoin ETF: "The regulated market of...

Pre-Show Thank you Amy for a wonderful summary 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 due to being garbage, as well as crypto journalist Amy Castor as patreon has had some bounced payments News At the same time as Fitch's downgrade: Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia Economics Fitch’s Debt Downgrade Is...

News Fednow, the Federal Resrves new payment system for instant payments, has finally launched 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 to the Aggriculture Comitte (which oddly is above it) This bill would then be submitted to the house, likely would not...

Pre-Show The FTX Foundation planned to buy the island of Naru to build a supervillain's lair A bitmex blog post discusses Gary Gensler's history as CFTC comissioner during alleged gold price manipulation that turned out to be justified News Crosseus, a bitcoin institutional investor, reminds us that the stock to flow model still exists and might be direcitonally correct, of course its mathematically ridiculous Regulatory arbitrage for crypto businesses is no walk in the park after Kuwait...

Pre-Show Celcius CEO Alex Mashinsky was arrested for fraud, finally. News Economics Lyn Alden's latest market update builds on her article charting the relationship between interest rates and inflation. Since conventional central bank focused economics is posited on interest rates influencing inflation, it's a precient topic. Lyn points to the International Monetary Fund's, a multinational financial organization, paper on using inflation and financial repression to solve goverment...

Pre-Show BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is now promoting bitcoin on tv news Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann and Vice President for Compliance Steven Christie confirmed in tweets on Friday morning in Asia that they are leaving the world’s largest crypto exchange. The confirmations came after Fortune reported multiple Binance senior executives were resigning amid regulatory investigations and lawsuits. News Economics Christine Laguard's speach at the Council on Foreign...

Pre-Show Crypto Firm Prime Trust Placed Into Receivership, affecting many bitcoin businesses Crypto Firms Swan, Coinbits Disclose Prime Trust Ties as Fallout Continues - Decrypt Alistair Milne on Twitter: "This address: bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2 ... has accumulated $3.5billion of #BTC in just 44 days @saylor needs to up his game @Tether_to is doing rookie numbers by comparison https://t.co/q5KHRUtoTZ" / Twitter News Apple is removing damus, a popular nostr...

Interview: Paul Sztorc Paul's vision of scaling is built on his proposal for drivechains, sidechains that hold coins using bitcoin miner escarow Pauls proposal of thunder, a way to scale sidechains on bitcoin The mathematical limitations of lightning network scaling on bitcoin Hal Phinney on intrade and prediction markets The pre-Blockstream sidechains paper that formed the basis for the Liquid Sidechain The original Scaling Bitcoin Conference that Paul mentioned The BitDNS...

Pre-Show Coinmetrics can accurately predict bitcoin global energy use by fingerprinting ASIC chips through their nonce values The worst data scientist RE bitcoin energy debates his model with bitcoiners, give it a listen News The NYT laments the end of the hallucination of a sustainable globalized economy and begins to orangepill its' readers “Financial globalization was supposed to usher in an era of robust growth and fiscal stability in the developing world,” said Jayati Ghosh,...

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...

News Sec complaint against Coinbase 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 from the Mt. Gox hack Economics and Banking Arthur preaches patience in waiting for the fiat liquidity situation to work out The In Gold we Trust report is back and the theme is Stagflation Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech covers a demonstration of a less efficient op code in stead...

Interview: Burak on ARK Burak's Links His blog on medium The [ark project](arkpill.me) website Ark telegram group for asking questions Links Related to Ark Conversation A description of ark as a coinpool protocol in the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #253 Ruben Somsens' ark explanation on github 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...

Pre-Show Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant, Rules US Federal Judge in a Historic Decision News Lots of crypto schadenfreude in Amy Castor's newsletter Economics and Banking The EU's cbdc is using a UTXO model, but no, this isn't a response to bitcoin USDC Issuer Circle Has Ditched All U.S. Treasuries From $24B Reserve Fund Amid Debt Ceiling Showdown Tether is investing operating profits in bitcoin, Energy A multi university study of the texas grid identifies...

Pre-Show Bottlepay shuts down again News High bitcoin fees are leading to an explosion of scaling ideas, including Barak the lightning slayer's ARK, an offchain private scaling solution Barak explains it deeply on the linux mailing list WalletScrutiny has been taken down again due to a nuissance lawsuit Must check resource before using a wallet US HoR Representative Tom Emmer's proposed Securities Clarity act is a shipcoin bill Altcoins OpenAI + WorldCoin, debunking...

Pre-Show Etherium transactions stopped finalizing briefly last week but it didn't really cause issues News Altcoins Ledger Recovery is a terrible idea poorly executed but its understandable that this model of crypto custody would be tried eventually How Nunchuk multisig wallet works, an alternative inheritance strategy Seth also explains what's wrong No Grayscal trust for FileCoin says SEC Even Justin Sun says FileCoin is a pump and dump scam How does Filecoin work? It's...

A brief history of the brief history of ordinal inscriptions on bitcoin from glassnode Another introduction to ordinals from crypto company Bitgo Bitcoin developer Andrew Poelstra on why banning arbitrary data from the bitcoin blockchain isn't feasible The Ordinal docs The introductory doc to BRC-20 experiment which uses ordinals to create altcoins on bitcoin Brandon Black's github

News Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv Commercial Real Estate is the next legacy asset to implode and a test sale indicates prices could fall by 75% Frontline's The Age of Easy Money, a documentary about FED policy in the 2010s Bitcoin Education Come to Adopting Bitcoin Bitcoin Optech #250 showcases a paper on POWswap, a way for miners to 'insure' themselves against changes in hashrate, and several release...

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 is harder than you think Anthony on not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in your estate planning Say hi to Anthony on twitter at @btcexecutor or checkout his podcast that he didn't mention A bitcoin executor nomination in your will Feedback Remember to get in touch...

Pre-Show The AdoptingBTC conference in El Salvador on November 7th News The U.S. Whitehouse is proposing a new tax on electricity used by bitcoin miners Jen W, a journalist at NYMAG, has a great expose on the regulatory hurdles being used to drive "Crypto" businesses out of the United States Glassnode, a blockchain data providor, reviews what moved on the bitcoin blockchain this week Lyn Alden on the structure and implications of open monetary networks .i.e. the very structure and...

Who is Huw Pill? Bank of England career page The 2% inflation target is not scientific it came from an off the cuff remark by a New Zealand official The podcast in question Edward Chancellor's excellent book on financial panics 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...

Pre-Show Millions of dollars lost while moving through an airport contrasts with over $10 million in BTC was sent in 1 transaction this morning, and it cost the sender $5 News Better update LND lightning nodes as it looks like a critical vulernability was discovered The release lnd v0.16.1-beta notes Altcoins Crypto did not cause Signature, Silvergate and SVB collapses, and FTX exposure was minimal per a U.S. Congressional report The report istelf Economics and...