BDP 71

Pre-Show

• Coin CEO Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco

News

• The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures

  • 2016 bitcoin talk forums were already suspicious of paxful

• Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved with OPNX, an exchange to trade the bankrupt claims the two scammers created

Economics and Banking

• The U.S. Federal Reserve never talks about eurodollars, but a former FED trader gives a very FED-ish take on eurodollars in a period of bank deposit risk

  • Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan a GSIB investment bank, summarizes the problem of balancy sheet capacity that led to the SVB bank failure

Energy

• Texas Legislature votes to limit participation in demand response schemes to less than 10% of all demand response capacity
• Texan bill to create gold-backed digital currency is slightly baffling

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech #245 covers a new proposal for watchtower accountability on lightning
• Neutrino is a bitcoin node that validates but does not store the entire history

Feedback

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