We found 10 episodes of Bitcoin Dad Pod with the tag “altcoins”.
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Episode 122: Getting Off Zero...Knowledge
February 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
altcoins, arthur, bitcoin education, bitcoin price, canada, central bank balance sheet, chinese stock market, chris, citrea, copa case, crypto, csw, energy policy, ftx, macroedge, monetary contraction, nitter, nostr, nvidia, openai founder sam altman, ripple, rollups, sec, seth, us, zero knowledge etherium virtual machine (zk-evm)
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a new zk-evm on bitcoin proposal, why the Chinese stock market matters for GDP forecasting, politicizing energy debate and much more.
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Episode 120: Don't Settle for an ETF
January 27th, 2024 | 55 mins 30 secs
altcoins, bank lending, bitcoin, bitwise, bitwise bitcoin etf, blackrock, blink plugin, brexit campaign, btc payserver, btfp program, celcius scam, chinese stocks, copa lawsuit, csw, etf, exchange-traded fund, fed, fidelity, forgeries, ftx, gbtc, global monetary conditions, grayscale bitcoin trust, privacy, satoshi, swan bitcoin, swan mining, tether, trezor
Chris and the bitcoin dad are back with a discussion of on-chain Tether fud, consensus failures in bitcoin and etherium, and CSW is desperately trying to settle his COPA lawsuit.
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Episode 119: The Cat is Loose
January 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
altcoins, ark 21shares, arthur hayes, banking, bitcoin, bitcoin core review club, bitcoin optech, bitwise, blackrock, btfp, coinbase, confluence, economic stress, eric balchunas, etf, eth, ethereum, fidelity, financial system, fink, forensic companies, fraud charges, gbtc, gold, grapheneos, grayscale, halving, hype cycle, jevons paradox, lightning anchors, ln symetry, market makers, mempool, price, re-show, sec, shinobi, u.s. central bank, vanek, vulnerabilities, wally street
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the successful launch of bitcoin ETFs in US stock markets, who these products are for, future attack vectors on self-custody, and worrying signs of consumer financial controls in Britain. They end the show with a discussion of mining centralization and fee bumping and some boosts.
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Episode 117: There Never Was a Second Best
December 29th, 2023 | 41 mins 1 sec
altcoins, arthur hayes, banking ban, bitcoin, bitcoin education, bitcoin knots policy, bitcoin mining pool, block template options, btc payserver, crypto, crypto companies, economics, ethereum, fiat debasement hedge, finance, functionality, institutional adoption, lnbank plugin, nigeria, ocean pool, privacy, regulation, seth for privacy, technical complexity, trusted parties, validators, value traps, vitalik buterin, vulnerabilities
The bitcoin dad discusses bitcoin mining decentralization, a high level review of the next year's risks and Vitalik conceding that Etherium's security model doesn't really work anymore.
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Episode 115: Mainstream or Decentralized
December 16th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
2024 election, altcoins, banking committee, bill, bill proposal, bills sponsored, bipartisan support, bitcoin business, bitcoin drop, bitcoin fair value, bitcoin node, bitcoin optech, china, coalition, coalition expansion, crypto, democratic party, digital asset anti-money laundering act, donald trump, drug trafficking, ecash wallet recovery, electronic service communications provider, elizabeth warren, enforcement actions, etf, eu, euro stablecoin, expenses, fasb rules, fisa reform, french bank, higher income, ledger connect kit, ledger wallet, living on bitcoin, liz, master's in finance, media tour, money laundering, mugshot nft, privacy, sanctions evasion, self-hosted wallet, self-hosted wallets trend, singapore, stratum v2 mining pool, surveillance application, terror funding, timeline, us, us mass surveillance, us senator, warren, weak dollar policy, wifi network, wsj
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a ledger wallet privacy and security failures, how institutionalization of bitcoin comes with risks to decentralization and censorship resistance, and the worst privacy news all year.
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Episode 114: When in Doubt, Break Glass
December 9th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
401(k) withdrawals, altcoins, bitcoin, bitcoin coinjoin, bitcoin optech newsletter, bitcoin-backed loans, bitkey hardware wallet, broken system, canada, capital controls, chainalysis, cloud storage, cluster mempool, cnbc supply chain survey, cpfp, custodial platform, delving bitcoin forum, demonetization, economic challenges, encryption, etf narrative, fiat liquidity, financial distress, financial regulation, freight recession, global crypto adoption survey, grassroots adoption, high inflation, hostile monetary environments, india, jack dorsey's block, ledn, nigeria, ocean pool, privacy, rbf transactions, recovery features, samurai whirlpool, seattle, self-custody wallets, ukraine, unchained, us, usa, vietnam
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a new bitcoin wallet security model from Block, the cluster mempool proposal for bitcoin core, and a wonky paper about regulatory revolving doors.
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Episode 113: Wet Hot Financial Surveillance
December 1st, 2023 | 45 mins 18 secs
altcoins, bad entropy, bbcnews article, bitcoin education, bitcoin environmental fud, bitcoins stolen, central management, dual-funded channels, economics, falling, global r*, lightning, liquidity advertisements, mechanistic model, news, privacy, rebuttal, shiny new fud ammo, us treasury, warrantless mass surveillance, water usage
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the US Treasury's latest attack on free speech and financial privacy, dual funded lightning channels and the newest bitcoin FUD, which is WET.
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Episode 111: Strangling the Golden Duck
November 24th, 2023 | 57 mins 24 secs
altcoins, antitrust lawsuit, apple, argentina, bhutan, binance, bitcoin mining, bitcoin optech, bitrex, cloudflare, coinbase, coincenter, compliance, cz, diminishing returns, dollarization, education city, f2pool, fine, forbes, hard currency, hydro powered, lightning offer addresses, lyn alden, mempool observer, money laundering, ofac, ofac listed addresses, polygon, sec, shutdown, solana, stablecoins, u.s. bank secrecy act, us regulations, wallet of satoshi, zeus developer account
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss Binance's settlement with the US Justice department, the end of the era of wildcat crypto exchanges, and its implications for bitcoin as a free financial system. They also cover censorship by F2Pool, a note from Lyn Alden on failing monetary gatekeeping, and how to host your own reusable lightning URL.
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Episode 108: The End Game is Here
November 12th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
altcoins, bear steepeners, bitcoin education, bitcoin optech, bull market, crypto scams, crypto transactions, economic growth, el salvador tourism, fed rate hikes, ftx creditors lawsuit, germany recession, global banking system risks, kansas bank failure, kyc, lightning enhancements, planb indicator, privacy, s&p rating, salvadoran conference, uk exchanges, us treasury auction, visa corporation ad spend
Chris and the bitcoin dad record in San Salvador, El Salvador covering the Adopting Bitcoin 2023 conference. It is also the beginning of the End Game, a US Treasury Auction has failed, it looks like another global monetary crisis has started, and bitcoin needs to be ready.
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Episode 107: Real Time Kollisions
November 5th, 2023 | 49 mins 22 secs
altcoins, bitcoin scripting, do kwan, federal reserve, fednow, irs, john doe summons, kollider lightning derivatives exchange, kraken, mastercard, nic carter, rtp, safemoon, sbf, terra-luna, u.s. regional bank, u.s. securities and exchange commission, wall street journal
Chris and the bitcoin dad sit down in Bitcoin Beach to discuss a week of media attacks on bitcoin, the philosophy of bitcoin scripting, and ongoing legacy banking shenanigans.