Episode 27
Stock to Seagulls
July 10th, 2022
58 mins 18 secs
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About this Episode
News
Debunking the bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) model
- Embarassed to say that I didn't question it more
- Confirmation bias/group think is real
Let's wade into Nic Carter's critique of bitcoin maximalism and Pete Rizzo's rebuttal
- Revisiting Rizzo's early piece on bitcoin maximalism provides context
- Nic has serious bitcoin chops as evidenced by his website
Economics
- Arthur's breadown of the crypto lending crash
- Doesn't dwell on the alleged fraud at 3ac
- Economic research paper linking ETFs to lower wages
Tokenomics
- CAR is creating their own altcoin based on 'tokenized natural resources', just like Venezuela
- Report on CAR paints a bleak picture of the country
Privacy
- Hacked exchange accounts are cheaper than expected on the dark web
- Chinese total surveillance police state apparently doesn't protect citizen data particularily well
- Similar leak detailed how China uses surveillance to commit genocide on the Uighers
- The libertarian CATO Institute report on how inflation reduces financial privacy
- CATO's 1998 newsletter supporting Adam Back and the cypherpunks drive for encryption and privacy
- Rember the clipper chip?
Energy
- IAE report on nuclear energy suggests that momentum for new nuclear power options is building, but sufficient nuclear to meaningfully impact climate change is still far away
Bitcoin Education
- Lopp's excellent page of lightning resources
- Elizabeth's Stark's lightning network primer is a good start
- Blockstream has a schnorr half aggregation proposal
- You can view it in their cross input signature aggregation (CISA) repo
Feedback
- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Value for Value
- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- Fountain podcast app (Android & Apple)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting