Episode 3
Sanctions vs Self Custody
March 7th, 2022
1 hr 32 mins 3 secs
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About this Episode
Feedback
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- Advice for LostFaithinPaperMoney
Helpful links for begining to self-custody your bitcoin
- Intro to holding bitcoin
- Sparrow Wallet quick start guide
Wallet Software and a good Hardware Wallet
- Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet - Sparrow Wallet
- COLDCARD Wallet – Hardware Wallet - The Most Trusted and Secure Hardware Wallet
- Exodus
News
- Finally some good privacy news from Chris Belcher about his new coinswap protocol
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy is back!
- Awesome newsletter by the pseudonymous opensource journalist Janine
- More challenges with Wasabi v2, incredibly privacy info
- NFT marketplace OpenSEE is not decentralized and subject to sanctions policy
- Etherium infrastructure providers will block certain areas from using their "decentralized" blockchain
- Sanctions on the Russian Central Bank may have frozen 30-50% of Russian FX reserves
History - Payments vs Global Money
- Chris is so right about bitcoin 10 years ago but the narrative was mostly about transactions, not investment/value transfer into the future
- Nick Szabo's Shelling Out describes a theoritcal framework to analyze a commodity gradually becoming money
- Paper is hosted by the Nakamoto Institute which has some great bitcoin research
- The narrative between transactional money and gold/value money changed during the Block Size War
- Mike Hearn of Bitcoin XT analyzes the death of the bitcoin network in 2016
- Early video defending bitcoin's small block decentralization, look at the comments for a sense of how loud the big block argument was
- An early podcast debate on block size Increases between Gavin Andreeson and Adam Back
Corrections
- Proof of Stake is great for pump and dumps
- Tuur Dem has a concise piece outlining some logical fallacies in POS security
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting