News

• Sweet infographic shows who funds bitcoin development

Tokenomics

• The Problem of Etherium explains the changing promises of Etherium in the context of a society with class structure
  • Ties in nicely with Vitalik's latest cry for help
• How sweet (and brief) it is to be a top 10 coin

Energy

• New CCAF report on bitcoin mining has some surprising(?) opinions

  • Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index Change Log

• Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave Isn’t a Good Sign | The Drive

Privacy

• This Month in Bitcoin Privacy is back!
  • Powerfull edition, great discussion of financial surveillance
  • Details CBDC incentives are completely anti-privacy
  • Start your own local trading group

• EU plans to 'save the children' by abolishing online privacy

• Seattle Bitcoin (Seattle, WA) | Meetup

Bitcoin Education

• 200th edition of bitcoin optech is out!
  • OP_CAT could enable recursive bitcoin covenants - protocol work is really hard!
  • Rusty Russell proposed an OP_TX opcode to replace Jeremey Rubin's OP_CTV. His proposal is more extensible and has all of the benefits of OP_CTV

Corrections

• Gary Gensler: crypto exchanges trading against their customers, also, water still wet -> this was a broad characterization is probably wrong for some exchanges like Kraken
• PSA - Umbrel is insecure

Feedback

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

• Some tips on running a full node:

  • Lopp's guide to bitcoin and tor setup
  • K3tan's excellent ubuntu nodebox guide
  • A docker node option I haven't tried

Value for Value

• Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
• The Fountain podcast app

Sponsors and Acknowledgements

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