Episode 90: XRP Army Strikes Back

July 16th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

1970s bank lending, bank lending, bitcoin, broad money growth, centralizing staking, conventional central bank economics, deflation, dumping on retail, eth, ethereum, federal reserve, fine, fiscal deficits, fiscal dominance, gdp, government debt crisis, government spending, howey test, inflation, inflation and financial repression, inflation perspective, interest rate hikes, interest rates, international monetary fund, japan, lido, liquid staking tokens, lyn alden, market update, monetizing deficits, money creation, proof of stake, public debt, ripple, sec, selling xrp tokens, sovereign debt, usg debt, xrp tokens

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss XRP's partial victory over the SEC, Lyn Alden's inflation and interest rate research, and how proof of stake has centralized Etherium validation.

Episode 89: Not at all about Bitcoin

July 8th, 2023  |  49 mins 4 secs

ageism, blackrock, central bank independance, christine laguard, ecb, industrial policy, larry fink, misinformation

Chris and the bitcoin dad mostly banter as there was little bitcoin news this week. The conversation veers from recent american political history to the state of small businesses so come for the bantz not the content on this episode.

Episode 88: ETF Prime Time

July 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 14 mins

app store, apple, blackrock, censorship, damus, etf, ios, kaspa, nostr, prime trust

Chris and the bitcoin dad cover the latest Blackrock, an asset manager, spot ETF application news, the failure of Prime Trust, a crypto hodling company, and some wonky economic research. They end with a listener request to deep dive on an altcoin and other boosts.

Episode 87: Interview: Scaling, Development, and Drivechains with Paul Sztorc

July 1st, 2023  |  1 hr 57 mins

drivechain, hal phinney, intrade, lightning, paul storc, prediction markets, thunder, video games

The bitcoin dad has a long conversation with OG bitcoiner and protocol architect Paul Sztorc discussing the pyrrhic victory of the Blocksize War, how the scaling debate has stagnated, and how large block sidechains might be the safest way to scale bitcoin.

Episode 86: Accidental Orange Pill

June 24th, 2023  |  30 mins 41 secs

The bitcoin dad shares a complementary duo of articles on globalization, macro, and bitcoin then finishes with the latest mempool relay article from bitcoin optech newsletter.

Episode 85: Privately Paying the World

June 17th, 2023  |  46 mins 45 secs

cbdc, etherium, hinman, payments, river, sec, silent payments, taproot annex

The bitcoin dad hosts a solo episode discussing a new report on global payments vs bitcoin from River Financial, how a new poll shows Americans don't want a CBDC, and privacy on bitcoin is back with Silent Payments.

Episode 84: Patience is Golden

June 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 23 mins

arthur hayes, btc-e, coinbase, covenants, gold, gox, in gold we trust, matt, op_ctv, patience, sec, wallet

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the open source concerns of the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase, a US crypto exchange, as well as two articles on global macro. They also discuss recent bitcoin mailing list conversations around alternative covenant implementations.

Episode 83: Interview: Burak on Ark

June 8th, 2023  |  45 mins 47 secs

ark, burak, coinpool, drivechain, layer 2, lightning, liquid, scaling bitcoin, sidechain, statechannel

Burak sits down with the bitcoin dad to discuss his new bitcoin layer 2 scaling proposal 'Ark.' The conversation touches on various scaling methodologies, why Burak thinks Ark has no tradeoffs, and the positive applications of covenants on bitcoin.

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 79: Interview: Ordinals, Inscriptions & BRC-20 with Brandon Black

May 17th, 2023  |  43 mins 17 secs

brandon black, brc-20, casey rodamor, inscriptions, ordinals, segwit, taproot

Bitcoin OG and software developer Brandon Black joins us for an in-depth explanation of how Segwit+Taproot enabled Ordinal Inscriptions on bitcoin and how this led to BRC-20.

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 77: Bitcoin: TNG w/ Anthony Park

May 10th, 2023  |  29 mins 8 secs

The bitcoin dad sits down to discuss passing bitcoin on to the next generation with Anthony S. Park, New York State lawyer. Anthony has written extensively on the subject and considered both legal and technological aspects to the problem of bitcoin inheritance.

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.