Episode 33
All Roads Lead to Bitcoin
August 6th, 2022
1 hr 5 mins 6 secs
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About this Episode
News
- Israel bans more cash transactions
- Consistent with financial surveillance trends
- Israel did YYC in the 1980s
- Australian police to expand asset seizures to cryptocurrency
Economics
ECB paper ponders the holy grail of cross-border settlement
- Concludes bitcoin is not credible due to volatility and POW
Somehow forgets issues inherent in fiat system
SwissRE concludes that the last 14 years of financial policy have been a tax on ordinary people
- 3.5% for housholds which means you lose 67% over 14 years
- 1.5% for institutional bondholders which means you lose 23% over 14 years
Tokenomics
- Major Solana projects were the work of two brothers pretending to be 11+ developers
Energy
- Recession or not, the US is hitting the limit of available fossil fuel energy
- This is a PSA that we need grown up energy policy worldwide
- An idea how gold fits into modern portfolio construction, it's scarcity fundamentally comes from energy
Bitcoin Education
- Stablesats makes USD to bitcoin accounts
- Have we ever actually explained bitcoin?
- Checkout Jameson Lopp's research on metal seed backups
Feedback
- Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
- Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Corrections
- None today!
Value for Value
- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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- Fountain podcast app (Android)
- Podverse (Cross platform and self hostable)
- Castamatic (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
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