Bitcoin Dad Pod Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody Cares

Pre-Show

The U.S. Whitehouse is proposing a new tax on electricity used by bitcoin miners
- Jen W, a journalist at NYMAG, has a great expose on the regulatory hurdles being used to drive "Crypto" businesses out of the United States
Glassnode, a blockchain data providor, reviews what moved on the bitcoin blockchain this week
Lyn Alden on the structure and implications of open monetary networks .i.e. the very structure and rules of money create the current state of society

Coinmetrics on MakerDAO, a decentralized collateralized stablecoin, that is struggling to remain decentralized and stable

First Republic bank is has been sold to JP Morgan as the U.S. Banking crisis accelerates
- Though some regional banks dispute claims of their financial distress
Even the IMF's own research don't support the wage-price spiral argument that justifies current central bank anti-employment policy

Bitcoin Optech #249 covers another proposal for bitcoin vaults and waxwing's thoughts on adapter signatures which are necessary for new taproot multisig constructions

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