Still Waiting for Constructive Feedback

Intro

• Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief

• SBF's mysterious bail bond guarantors were revealed to be ... family friends?

• No independant examiner for the FTX fraud means no action against the many people who supported SBF and looted customer funds

  • But don't worry, SBF's VPN use is only for watching football, not looting FTX crypto wallets

• Lee Rainier, a crypto law professor and former Federal Reserve employee, testifies before the U.S. Senate banking comittee on why bitcoin should be banned

  News

• Fedi, a company based around Fedimint technology, Hackathon develops modules to create US dollar stable value in a fedimint

• Creditors of Mt Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, have an early payout option

  • It was the biggest exchange failure in bitcoin history and many thought it would kill bitcoin

• Pack it up, party's over, the Wall Street Journal, a pro-business newspaper, reveals that six developers control bitcoin /s

  • Article shows a lack of basic knowledge of how open source projects operate and bitcoin consensus works

• Arthur may have called the bull market based on liquidity conditions

Economics

• Lyn Alden's February newsletter covers
  • She also has a marvelous article on the US Federal Reserve's recent shift to operating at a loss
  • Arthur has a view on trading based on financial system liquidity

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech #238 links to a bitcoin documentation search engine

Feedback

• Remember to get in touch [email protected] or @bitcoindadpod on twitter

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