Wildly Speculative

Intro

• Wild speculation that @elonmusk killed #terraluna with their #Bitcoin sale at 30k, killed all the degens, What a legend 🤣

• Crypto skeptic David Gerard has a current list of exchanges with red flags

News

• Chinese citizens are emigrating but concerned about taking their wealth with them while a collapsing real estate bubble that might take down the financial sector is slowing economic growth

Economics

• Russia using dollars as unit of account but UAE dirhams as payment

• The real story might be China's compounding economic decline masked by the Zero-Covid policy

• ECB hikes rates to 0%, first raise in 10 years, but clearly not enough to tame inflation

  • While simultaneously printing money with the Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI) plan, intended to cap the rise in borrowing costs across the currency bloc as policy tightens.

Tokenomics

• Scaramuchi's Skybridge Capital gates fund

• Amy Castor on the Solend Whale story, she's a hater but gets this story right

• Chainlink God's L1 Rotation Thesis is a good retrospective on the 2021 mania written by a degenerate altcoiner

Energy

• Debunking Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy FUD by Ben Gagnon Chief Mining Officer of Bitfarms

Privacy

• Chainalysis' article on mixers, cited in last week's Ars article, conflates coinjoin with mixing and is a load of nonsense

• Brother Rabbit, anon of the Samourai Dev Team, describes coinjoin privacy

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech #208 focuses on discussions of the inflationary (or not) effects of tail emissions and dealing with fee sniping

Feedback

• Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
• Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element

Corrections

• Jamal Kashogi, the murdered Saudi journalist, wrote for the Washington Post, not the New York Times
• The S in 'PIGS' stands for Spain

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Sponsors and Acknowledgements

• The Adopting Bitcoin Conference November 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% discount

Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting