Nuclear Buyback

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

Feedback

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

• Consider joining the matrix channel using a matrix client like element, details here

Boosts:

• For recurrent boosts like a membership model, try using oak.home to boost the show's LNURL: [email protected]

Thank you Boosters

• If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us!

• Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required.

  • Install Alby
  • Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index
  • Boost right from the page!

• Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at [email protected] or directly to Chris at [email protected]

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) + Alby for boosts
  • Castamatic (Apple)

Sponsors and Acknowledgements

Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Self Hosted Show courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting