We found 10 episodes of Bitcoin Dad Pod with the tag “bitcoin optech”.
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Episode 121: Can I get your...GPS cords?
February 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
ai companies, arbitraging, arthur hayes, ath, bank term funding program, bitcoin, bitcoin mining, bitcoin optech, borrowing, chinese savers, coal burning powerplants, comerica, constrained supply, debanking weekend update, evergrande, exogenous fee, expensive, extortion, falling, fed's emergency lending program, financial pressure, finnish law enforcement, gavin newsom, gps coordinates, hacker, harvard report, holger zschaepitz, homelessness, hong kong court, housing, housing in the usa, interest rate, investment vehicle, liquidation, monero traceability, ortex, power demand, prices, real estate, record, register, replace by fee model, s&p 500 banks index, shoplifting, short sellers, snl, stagnant, truflation dashboard, u.s. regional banking shares, u.s. whitehouse, underwater treasury portfolio, us bank, us federal reserve, us regional banks, valley national bancorp, wages, western alliance bancorp
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss a new US Mining Registration policy, wealth disparity and 'populism', and the challenge of fee replacement in the bitcoin mempool.
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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 116: Liquid Courage
December 23rd, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
alby, alby browser extension, bisq, bitcoin development, bitcoin knots, bitcoin optech, bitcoin web payments plugin, bitcointalk.org, blockstream liquid sidechain, central bank, form 1099-k, game stop apes, hodl, inflation, irs, lightning, lightning network, lightningnetwork, liquid sidechain, marina - liquid wallet, marinawallet, nta blog, ofac compliance, prices, protos, reddit clone, ronin dojo, samurai wallet, stacker news, twitter, u.s. federal reserve, us financial regulation, us mainstream news, us payroll, year in review
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the tradeoffs of the Liquid Sidechain as a tool during high on-chain bitcoin fee periods, the origin of hodl, and a year of lightning network development.
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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 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 105: Europe's on the Move
October 21st, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
altcoins, binance smart chain, bitcoin optech, cbdc, child sex content, coinbase, cve, digital euro, ecb, eu, fidelity investments, game theory, grayscale bitcoin etf, inflation, jimmy zhong, malware, network effects, privacy, ripple, scarcity, sec, silk road
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the ECB's digital euro project, a critical lightning vulnerability, and an excellent normie bitcoin report from Fidelity.
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Episode 102: Financial Repression is Literally Here
September 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
acquisition, altcoins, arrest, bitcoin mining pool, bitcoin optech, bitgo, boosts, breach, covenants, cryptocurrency, digital assets, economic logic, f2pool, feedback, financial crisis, financial repression, fortress trust, government deficits, hackers, hedge fund, imprisonment, lightning, mike belshe, miner extractable value, monetary policy, privacy, ripple, security incident, stolen assets, three arrows capital
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the latest bear market drama and a compelling argument that financial repression is already here.
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Episode 96: Paypal is a Crypto Company
August 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
altcoin nft marketplace, andreas, bank of ireland, banking crisis, bankruptcy, bitcoin dad pod, bitcoin optech, bitcoin wallet, china evergrande, defi ecosystem, erc-20 usd stablecoin, etf, ethereum, eurodollars, fed funds rate, ftx, it blunder, lehman moment, libbitcoin library, lightning network, lightning terminal, lightning wallets, llm, milksad vulnerability, nft, opensea, operator filter, paypal, sam bankman-fried, sec, shadow banking, trampoline protocol, witness tampering, zeus, zoltan poszar
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss an incredible bitcoin optech with multi-sig, silent payments, and the implications of a PayPal stablecoin on Etherium.
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Episode 94: Fitch Better Have My Money
August 6th, 2023 | 58 mins 4 secs
altcoins, bitcoin dev mailing list, bitcoin education, bitcoin optech, blind signature signing, boosts, borrowing, crypto journalist, crypto screwups, debt worry, debt-to-gdp, debt/gdp, dollar liquidity, economics, entropy, etsy, federal reserve, fednow, financial repression, fitch's downgrade, fitch's us rating downgrade, grapheneos, hex token, inflation-adjusted interest payments, investigation, investors, lightning protocol, monero, patreon, payment problems, paypal, privacy, sats, software updates, tether, uniswap, us deficits, us treasuries, worldcoin
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss the recent Worldcoin launch, the downgrade of US Government creditworthiness by ratings agency Fitch, and a host of legacy payment problems.