Episode 120
Don't Settle for an ETF
January 27th, 2024
55 mins 30 secs
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About this Episode
Pre-Show
"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
Economics
Chinese stocks suffer, likely due to reduced bank lending, another sign of tightening global monetary conditions
ETF: FTX Still Haunting BTC Users
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.
Privacy
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
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