Episode 82: UTXO is Our Word

June 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 6 mins

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a wide range of crypto criticism from an avowed bitcoin skeptic, the European Central Bank's latest Digital Currency project, and finally some great academic research on power grids and bitcoin. They follow up with bitcoin optech and an analysis of lightning payment security.

Episode 81: Regulation for Me, a Gatekeeper for Thee

May 28th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

ark, barak, bitcoin v25, bottlepay, chatgpt, coder radio, cosmos, libor, openai, optech #252, robostats, sam altman, securities clarity act, tomm emmer, uk regulation, walletscrutiny

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss ARK, a bitcoin scaling proposal, the sordid history of LIBOR, and the parallels between altcoin and AI regulation in the US.

Episode 80: Hardware Wallet Web Backup

May 20th, 2023  |  1 hr 22 mins

arhtur hayes, banking, denominator, etf, etherium, filecoin, grayscale, ledger, mica, nunchuk, pos, pow, sec

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the latest Ledger hardware wallet recovery controversy, an interesting blog post on banking developments, as well as speculative ideas for increasing bitcoin throughput.

Episode 78: Going Full Editorial

May 14th, 2023  |  56 mins 21 secs

Chris and the bitcoin bitcoin dad drop a short episode with some technical talk on POWswap for mining hashrate insurance. The discussion has an editorial, op ed quality with less news stories than usual.

Episode 76: Banks Fail and Nobody Cares

May 6th, 2023  |  1 hr 19 mins

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a mainstream account of financial repression towards bitcoin, another ignored bank failure, and payjoin, a bitcoin privacy technology that is becoming more accessible.

Episode 75: Reaction to Huw Pill

May 3rd, 2023  |  1 hr 1 min

bank of england, central bank, elitism, huw pill, inflation, philips curve

The bitcoin dad reacts to Huw Pill, an economist at the Bank of England, as he's interviewed on a variety of contemporary monetary policy questions.

Episode 74: A Checking Account to Rule Them All

April 30th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss Arthur Haye's view that the world moves to gold, then bitcoin, how the US Treasury General Account will make financial waves no matter what happens, and the U.S. Government's own research exculpate's 'crypto' from the U.S. Banking Crisis. They then introduce Utreexo, a faster way to sync bitcoin nodes using zero knowledge proofs.

Episode 73: Nuclear Buyback

April 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 30 mins

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a US Treasury buyback proposal, various bitcoin privacy technologies, and talk about bitcoin's 'security model' for far too long.

Episode 72: Cracked Critique

April 16th, 2023  |  1 hr 11 mins

arthur hayes, channel factories, critique, etherium, riot, sweden

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss another critique of bitcoin focused on mining economics, Etherium's latest hardfork to enable staking withdrawls, and a great guide to dark markets and Nostr.

Episode 71: Dimon Handz

April 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 25 mins

bobby lee, digital gold, eurodollar, jamie dimon, jinformatique, jp morgan, justin wang, mining, mobile coin, neutrino, opnx, paxful, square, texas, watchtowers, yousef

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the shutdown of Paxful in the context of increasingly hostile financial regulatory compliance, how the FED might think about Eurodollars, and why the world's number one banker is not bullish on tradfi banking.

Episode 70: Derivative enforcement leaves few options...

April 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 2 mins

binance, cftc, channel factory, energy, freeross, multiparty, optech, petrodollar, saudi arabia, silk road

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a history of petrodollars and US government debt, the beginning of a regulatory crackdown on Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, and a big whale is dumping bitcoin in private markets. They finish up with some boosts, including an energy rant (that is bookmarked so you can skip it) from a booster.

Episode 69: Steady lads! Deploying more capital...

March 25th, 2023  |  1 hr 23 mins

block, coinbase, do kwan, dollar swaps, hindenburg, justin sun, luna, offshore, optech, president, sec, terra, wells notice, wolf richter, wolfstreet, xapo

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the U.S President's Economic Report to Congress, SEC regulatory actions against scammers (including Coinbase), and a Bitcoin Optech full of software updates.

Episode 68: Then they fight you[r bank]

March 19th, 2023  |  1 hr 32 mins

lyn alden, macaroons, ronindojo, session, seth, signature, silvergate, svb, whisper, yield curve control

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss three bank failures, how bitcoin doesn't care, why yield curve control is probably all ready here, and how to use your own AI to make a transcript. Discussions of privacy mobile phones, cookies, and monetary policy follow.

Episode 67: Bad Week for Bankers

March 12th, 2023  |  57 mins 47 secs

bitcoin inquisition, energy, gemini, hedera, jp morgan, ldo sbv, lido, optech, sillicon valley bank, silvergate, voorhees

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the failure of two US banks with 'crypto' ties, how everyone is talking their bags, the New York Attorney General thinks Etherium is a security, and how to backup your lightning channels (TLDR use Core Lightning).

Episode 66: Bitcoin, HODL it tight

March 6th, 2023  |  1 hr 3 mins

blue wallet, darthcoin, el salvador, lnd hub, silvergate, simplex, tether

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss recent pro El Salvador news from Wall Street, the imminent failure of Silvergate bank, a bridge to legacy finance, and a new way to chat privately and anonymously online.

Episode 65: Just add more blockchains

February 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins

coinbase, custodia, ecc, etherium, federal reserve, l2, optech 239, optimism, ordinals, signal

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the nuances of semi-private blockchains, why inflation data is hard to draw conclusions from, and how crypto banking is a really good, but difficult, project. They finish up with a discussion of Bitcoin Optech news and a beginners guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography.