Episode 81
Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for Thee
May 28th, 2023
1 hr 12 mins 45 secs
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About this Episode
Pre-Show
- Bottlepay shuts down again
News
High bitcoin fees are leading to an explosion of scaling ideas, including Barak the lightning slayer's ARK, an offchain private scaling solution
- Barak explains it deeply on the linux mailing list
WalletScrutiny has been taken down again due to a nuissance lawsuit
- Must check resource before using a wallet
US HoR Representative Tom Emmer's proposed Securities Clarity act is a shipcoin bill
Altcoins
- OpenAI + WorldCoin, debunking ultra-scammer Sam Altman's agenda
- WorldCoin is built on Cosmos a plug and play VC blockchain solution
- Worldcoin gitub repo is completely dead
- Get some context on OpenAI and ChatGPT by listening to Coder Radio 519: Not So OpenAI
Economics and Banking
- Evidence emerges that central banks around the world coordinated a 2008 manipulation of LIBOR
- JP Morgan explains that the Fed helped design SOFOR, an easier to control alternative
- LIBOR was killed due to a 2012 scandal where banks gamed LIBOR to make derivative returns
Bitcoin Education
- Bitcoin Core v25 released with significant maintenance upgrades including higher witness data limits, better error messages, and more build options
- Awesome Robostats guide
- Bitcoin Optech #252 covers (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/24/)
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