Episode 42: Move Fast and Break...Eggs?

September 25th, 2022  |  58 mins 2 secs

Chris and the bitcoin dad sit down to discuss a plethora of bear market topics: bankruptcies, currency woes, and the logic of bitcoin UTXO selection. They finish up with a discussion of building your own self hosted bitcoin and personal cloud services and lots of great feedback from the community.

Episode 41: If you can't beat 'em, Merge

September 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 7 mins

Chris and the bitcoin dad laugh at the Etherium merge, enjoy the latest Federal Reserve research discrediting Quantitative Easing, and talk about two big bitcoin upgrade: TARO and Drivechains.

Episode 40: The Only Way Out is Through

September 13th, 2022  |  1 hr 14 mins

arthur hayes, bitcoin, etherium, gazprom, janine, lyn, privacy, umbrel

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss upgrading a bitcoin node, the cycles of value and growth investing, war time finance, and how that all means the time for bitcoin is now.

Episode 39: Accidentally Debunking MMT (and POS)

September 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 22 mins

btc, coinmetrics, eth, iran, kansass city fed, merge, zoltan

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss Lyn Alden's comprehensive Bitcoin and lightning paper, how the Federal Reserve thinks government spending creates inflation, and accidentally debunk modern monetary theory in the process. Proof of stake is also a casualty of this conversation.

Episode 38: Legal Trollz and Staking Lulz

August 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 16 mins

bitcoin, eth, hayes, lawsuit, merge, transaction, v-byte, weight unit

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss spurious lawsuits in bitcoin, regulatory tough talk, and how dollar liquidity is more than meets the eye. Then they dive into bitcoin transactions and what exactly a v-byte really is for some bitcoin education.

Episode 37: Interview: The Dr Bitcoin Pod

August 25th, 2022  |  48 mins 50 secs

The bitcoin dad talks with Mark Hunter and Arthur Van Pelt of the Dr. Bitcoin Pod about the history of Craig Wright, legal threats to bitcoin, and obsessing over a courtroom bully.

Episode 36: Going Ad Hominem

August 22nd, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

bitcoin, brian armstrong, cardano, censorship, charles, coinbase, craig wright, eth, gloria zhao, helium, italy, nodes, nova, ofac, politico, staking

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a slow news week as the Eurozone slowly crumbles, frivolous lawsuits fill the air, and the Silent Depression is called out. A wholesome article on bitcoin nodes is followed up by a vicious on air murder.

Episode 35: Interview: Jill Williamson on OFAC, Tornado Cash and SEC vs Ripple

August 18th, 2022  |  38 mins 6 secs

eth, ofac, ripple, sanctions, tornado cash, xrp

Jill Williamson educates the bitcoin dad on OFAC, why it can sanction basically anything it wants, how Tornado Cash is likely a legitimate sanction target, and legal protections of financial privacy (spoiler: there are none). They also touch on recent SEC vs Ripple developments and how they will change many aspects of regulatory guidance.

Episode 34: Insiders Always Dump

August 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 10 mins

bitcoin, blackrock, dump, eth, iran, monero, ofac, tornado

Chris and the bitcoin dad cover the latest in anti-privacy sanctions, bitcoin core dust policies, and a great piece on altcoin economics.

Episode 33: All Roads Lead to Bitcoin

August 6th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins

ecb, galoy, israel, lopp, seed, solana, stablesats, ycc

Chris and the bitcoin dad chart the path of financial repression to uncertain property rights, the ECB's search for the Holy Grail, and stablesats as a bitcoin dollar account.

Episode 32: Under the Curve

July 29th, 2022  |  46 mins 42 secs

bitcoin, el salvador, eu, excalibur, hayes, italy, offline, seed, spicedao

Chris and the bitcoin dad share a short conversation about the latest macro bear news, the silliest DAO of them all, and how to generate private keys offline.

Episode 31: Interview: Kemal from Galoy

July 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

adopting bitcoin, bitcoin beach, el salvador, galoy, hearn, kemal, raspiblitz, raspibolt, stablecoins, stablesats

The bitcoin dad and Kemal discuss the Adopting Bitcoin conference, the Galoy bitcoin banking tech stack, and dish the goss about bitcoin maximalism, getting rekt with hubris, and bitcoin's reliability.

Episode 30: Wildly Speculative

July 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 40 mins

banking, boj, chainalysis, chainlink, china, coinjoin, dhiram, digiconomist, ecb, elon, energy, fee sniping, fud, gerard, hayes, japan, l1, legard, mixers, powell, rotation, russia, tail emision, tesla, uae

Chris and the bitcoin dad wildly speculate on rumors of who really killed the crypto lending market, hints of miner issues in the bitcoin dev list, and how Europe, China, and Japan are melting down. Is this the last crisis before hyperbitcoinization or will we have to go through this all again?

Episode 29: Peak Griftonomics

July 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 47 mins

3ac, bitcoin, cbdc, celsius, energy, optech 208, privacy, voyager

Chris and the bitcoin dad have a jumbo sized conversation covering incoming CBDCs in Europe, accompanying energy FUD, why global energy markets are not going down, and how so many people don't appreciate privacy. Stay to the end for some bitcoin education covering the OP_RETURN war, your own bitcoin VPS, and Optech 208.

Episode 28: Interview - Jameson Lopp

July 12th, 2022  |  55 mins 49 secs

btc, decentralized identity, eth presale, inx, jameson lopp, liquid, privacy, self custody

The bitcoin dad and Jameson Lopp discuss keeping an open but critical mind around bitcoin, how technical reality and financial reality barely meet, and the challenges of sidechains. Stay to the end for a practical guide to self custody security and threat modeling.

Episode 27: Stock to Seagulls

July 10th, 2022  |  58 mins 18 secs

aggregation, blockstream, car, hayes, lightning, maximalism, nic, nuclear, rizzo, s2f

Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the bitcoin culture wars, debunking the stock to flow bitcoin price model, and get interrupted by seagulls and the Islamic call to prayer. The review the lightning network at a high level and nerd out on signature aggregation.