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Welcome to the Bear Market

• If bitcoin is dead...why is the federal reserve doubling down on their FedNow CBDC bitcoin clone?
  • Hilarious video touting its benefits
  • The US White House is also doubling down on CBDCs
  • Centralized solutions enable MORE monetary policy, not less, delaying the debt crisis

Reading list for the Bear Market

• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopolus
• Programing Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
• Grokking Bitcoin is less technical, more like a comic
• A hands on course for using a bitcoin node from the command line

News

• Congressional Research Service releases a paper describing current stablecoin regulatory frameworks and a followup that outlines the regulatory options
• Jack Mallers gives a great interview with Business Insider and they don't publish it
  • Great response to every piece of FUD thrown at bitcoin, train up for no-coiner debates

Economics

• Lyn Alden details the European Central Bank's monetary trap
• The Federal Reserve's Plan was a recession all along
• Cisco is a tech canary, when they freeze hiring it's a red flag

Tokenomics

• Celsius network halts withdrawls, appears insolvent and poised to take down other stealth crypto hedgefunds and lenders like 3ac
• Who could have known that the NBA would create huge numbers of NFTs to satsify demand for Top Shots, tanking their price?
• Lyn's post-mortem of the vurrent crypto crash is also required reading to undrestand why all the alts go down and how that doesn't affect bitcoin's value proposition
• Arthur Hayes latest blog post is a mix of failed predictions and an attempt to pump his DEX bags

Privacy

• DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing, might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue

Bitcoin Education

• A list of bitcoin privacy proposals by Seth for Privacy
• Certified Bitcoin Professional test
• Bolt Hackathon tutorials on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning

Feedback

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

• None today!

Value for Value

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

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