Episode 20
Be water, my friend, not exit liquidity
June 4th, 2022
1 hr 57 secs
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News
Anti-bitcoin personality promotes anti-crypto lobbying letter:
“The computational power is equivalent to what you could do in a centralised way with a $100 computer,” said de Icaza. “We’re essentially wasting millions of dollars’ worth of equipment because we’ve decided that we don’t trust the banking system.”
- Turns out he works for a private blockchain company that ripped off its name from the best hacking game of the 2000s
- That said, most crypto lobbying is for altcoins
- Why many successful people dismiss bitcoin
Ubuntu-Mate is still taking bitcoin donations
New York State prepares legislation to ban bitcoin mining and it sort of matters
Economics
- Arthur's latest article ties together inflation, FED policy, and market's appetite for risk assets
- The In Gold We Trust Report
- SEC goes after NFT insider trading
Tokenomics
- The Hex Spam King is offering 40% APY on your investments
- 1.3M Etherium transactions failed in May and this is expensive
- Weird video of a video of Vinay Gupta claiming Etherium exists to monetize the presale whale's holdings
- Vinay has an odd "physical blockchain" product called matterum
Privacy
- Seth's list of bitcoin privacy improvement technologies
- Ledger no longer supports running your own bitcoin node
Bitcoin Education
- This week's bitcoin optech
- Thinking about the progressive case for bitcoin
- Block [report](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/127723/the-block-research-2021-digital-asset-outlook-report on global bitcoin adoption
Feedback
- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the Jupiter Broadcasting Bitcoin Room for general discussion or the questions room if you have pressing questions that need answering
Corrections
- None today!
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- The Fountain podcast app
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
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