Episode 43
TickTok Activated Softforks with Paul Sztorc
October 6th, 2022
2 hrs 15 mins 4 secs
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About this Episode
Intro
Edward Chancellor Devil Take the Hindmost
Mercea Popeski's best quotes courtesy of Pete Rizzo
And his "former lover's" blog
News
Swan aquires the company behind Specter wallet
Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev still being held 7 weeks without charge and Dutch authorities are selling his car?
When Taproot? tracks taproot integration in projects and provides education to developers, bitcoin upgrades can take time to become widespread
Economics
A modern look at the Trinity Study and what it says about human's search for monetary stability
- The Trinity Study tried to debunk a 10% withdrawl rate, not support a 4% rate
The Blues and the Greens, one of Paul's favorite allegories
Some detail and texture of the early 20th century gold standard
The Apple Card is worse than subprime, turns out making phones doesn't make you a good CC issuer?
A primer on bond investing from Lyn Alden as a way to think about the
Privacy
ErgoBTC contributes to privacy guru Michael Bazzell's pro-privacy magazine
Speaking of Michael Bazzell, his guide on a DIY credit freeze is a must do for all people in the USA
Software Updates
- Fountain podcast app now supports a queue and carplay - Chris seemed to think that was important
Bitcoin Education
Lopp on encrypted cloud backups
ZeroSync - an instant blockchain syncronization proof might allow nodes to instantly sync to the bitcoin mainchain
- Uses bitcoin's assumeValid flag and implements utreexo
In Bitcoin Optech #219 Anthony Towns describes a bitcoin fork for testing soft fork proposals on Signet, useful for Drivechains?
- Paul discusses alternative drivechain activation methods
Feedback
Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter
Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element
Boosts
Lopp's bitcoin resources for learning about all aspects of bitcoin
Paul's drive chain resources
- Run a drive chain here
Corrections
- None today!
Value for Value
- Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem
- Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps:
- 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 Novem ber 15, 16 & 17, 2022 in El Salvador, use promo code BITCOINDAD for a 21% di scount
Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting