Episode 73
Nuclear Buyback
April 24th, 2023
1 hr 30 mins 28 secs
About this Episode
Pre-Show
- Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail after 6 months in jail waiting a trial
News
Economics and Banking
The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Commitee (TBAC), proposed a Treasury buyback program in February, another sign that Yield Curve Control is the solution to the U.S. Governments debt spiral
The 1 yr US Treasury bill continues to sharply invert, expressing a negative economic outlook
Energy
Germany shut down its remaining nuclear plants after a multi-decade political shift against nuclear energy
- Eon, a German energy producer, increased electricity prices by 45 percent in related news english version
Privacy
- Trezor, a hardware wallet, adds coinjoin integration for user privacy, but its through Wassabi Wallets ZKSnacks' coordiator that does chain analysis on users before letting them coinjoin
MullvadVPN, a reputable privacy focused VPN provider, was served a warrant in Sweden, their home juristiction, no customer data was handed over since Mullvad collects no such data
jam is a webui on top of joinmarket, a maker-taker based coinjoin protocol that avoids the centralized coordinator issues of Samurai and Wasabi
Bitcoin Education
- Let's talk bitcoin's security model to see if critique's of bitcoin security are useful or the new FUD
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