Pre-show Tease

• The Roblox saga continues

News

Mainstream

• Funny Verge article laughs at various flavors of bitcolin maximalism at Bitcoin 2022
• Warren attacks Fidelity plan to add bitcoin to 401k(k) plans

Economics

• Economics Mini-Series: Three articles to grok the current monetary and energy transition
  • Lyn Alden's epic What is money? condenses 5000 years of monetary history into a half hour read
    • Understand previous monetary transitions so the current one doesn't surprise you >The Swiss dropped their gold standard when I was twelve years old, which was six years after Amazon was founded, and three years before Tesla was founded. The fiat/petrodollar standard is only four times older than bitcoin, and only two times older than the first internet browser. That’s pretty recent when you think about it like that.
  • Lyn Alden's Investing during stagflation
    • The last 20 years of low interest rates are bad experience for understanding high interest rate/high inflation investing
  • Arthur Hayes' Doom Loop is worth a second read, plays out the trades that lead to million dollar bitcoin
    • Government Debt Spiral + energy crisis = YCC
    • High inflation US, Breakup of EU, China divests dollars into energy, gold, btc?
    • China's savings is a big problem

Energy

• Chris can finally stop caring about energy misinformation and just hand out Lyn's bullish energy market forecast
• Febuary story about the failure of Spain's solar subsidy program

Tokenomics

• Lyn Alden took the time to quantify how much volatility it will take to break the TERRA-LUNA peg and how selling bitcoin reserves could trigger a market crash
• Solana needs another restart, POS is going great!
• NFT activity is flatlining surprising no one who took 10 minutes to think about the fundamentals of 'non-fungible tokens' HINT: the key is 'non-fungible'
  • See the raw data here

Bitcoin Education

• A boost suggest we look into open timestamps

Feedback

• Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter

• See on-chain bitcoin activity using Glassnode

• Sell files on lighting with agora

• Bitcoin KPIs provides free on chain data about the bitcoin network

• See up to date mining pool data with the mempool.space mining dashboard

  Corrections

• None today!

Outro

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