Cracked Critique

Pre-Show

• Sweden hikes taxes on datacenters bitcoin miners included

• Riot Blockchain's critique of the NYT's latest anti-bitcoin mining article

News

• A critique of Bitcoin's value proposition focuses on nitpiking the whitepaper but provides a good introcution to bitcoin's security model

Altcoins

• The ETH Shanghai hardfork has enabled unstaking and the onchain activity suggests relatively high demand to hold for stakers

  • LIDO will not enable withdrawls but it seems like a reasonable technical schedule

• Arthur Hayes, one of the BitMex founders, is shilling his investments in ETH staking infrastructure, a variation of buying the first page of alts in a bull rise

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech #246 covers a new proposal for off chain lightning channel rebalancing that builds on channel factories

• NOSTR education and an LNBits guide by friend of the show darthCoin

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