Episode 105
Europe's on the Move
October 21st, 2023
1 hr 7 mins 31 secs
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About this Episode
Pre-Show
The actual report details how the digital euro is basically a credit card processing system with the ECB as the clearinghouse
News
- Wordpress site hackers are using Binance Smart Chain to host malware payloads
- free to call contract data
- cheap to update the contract contents on BSC
- Using a storage function on-chain to store payload
We hope that Jimmy Zhong, who plead guilty to 'hacking' the Silk Road, serves his prison sentence without issue and lands on his feet
- There is also a documentary about Jimmy's story
US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF -source | Reuters
US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF
- A coindesk editorial on Ripple is very pro CBDC while failing to make a case for any social benefits, and completely missing the huge social costs of closed payment systems, of course it was written by Ripple's VP for CBDCs
Economics
- Bitcoin beats inflation if you hold it long enough
Privacy
- The EU keeps trying to eliminate digital privacy and in a weird twist, this effort is being pushed by Aston Kutcher of 'That 70s Show'
Altcoins
- Coinbase sort of out of india
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Optech #273 covers BitVM, a lightning vulnerability and much more
Fidelity Investment's latest bitcoin report is an excellent summary on bitcoin's value proposition
- Value of scarcity
- Network effects
- No real competition from other digital assets
- Game theory of bitcoin forks
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