We found 10 episodes of Bitcoin Dad Pod with the tag “bitcoin”.
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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 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 118: The Theme is Incentives
January 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
bitcoin, bitcoin dad pod, bitwise, blackrock, coinjoins, debt ceiling, disinflation, europe, financial advisors, fiscal policy, ftx, indian rupees, inflation, jpmorgan, living in turkey, lyn alden, oil imports, political donations, privacy, recession, sam bankman-fried, sbf, spot bitcoin etf, unchained capital, us, us monetary policy, us presidential election 2024, us prosecutors, utxo, utxo consolidation, x
Chris and the bitcoin dad start the new year with a macro drop from Lyn Alden, the pernicious incentives of inflation and how UTXO management will bite you no matter how you do it.
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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 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 106: The Trust is Bust
October 28th, 2023 | 39 mins 41 secs
altcoins, bitcoin, boosts, central bank risk, coinjoin, fincen, fiscal dominance, lightning htlc recycling attack, podcasting 2.0, privacy, protocol level vulnerability, rich dad poor dad, sats, sponsors, tax implications, travel, us social security trust fund
The bitcoin dad introduces a practical guide to Fiscal Dominance and financial repression, legal privacy attacks on bitcoin from FinCen, and once again, the lighting HTLC recycling attack.
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Episode 104: Trial Gate
October 14th, 2023 | 41 mins 14 secs
altcoins, bitcoin, bitvm, blockchain, cryptocurrency, economics, ftx, inflation, interest rates, lightning, privacy, sam bankman-fried, swan vault, technology, testimony
Chris and the bitcoin dad can't help but discuss some of the SBF courtroom drama, a host of new bitcoin hardware wallet releases, and a proposal to build bitcoin smart contracts out of logic gates built into taproot trees.
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Episode 103: Macro Eruptions
October 7th, 2023 | 57 mins 2 secs
altcoins, bitcoin, bitcoin education, bitcoin mining pool, central banks, chainalysis, crypto winter, dutch tax office, el salvador, eth futures etf, ether, finance, ftx, gdp growth, gold, jobs report, lightning improvements, market tone, mass surveillance, privacy, sam bankman-fried, stocks, trial, us prosecutor, volcano energy
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss El Salvador's Lava Pool, the sovereign debt apocalypse inches closer, and really cool bitcoin network monitoring catches chainalysis.
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Episode 98: Working on Privacy
September 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
altcoins, bitcoin, bitcoin mining, cambridge, carbon intensity, competitiveness, drivechain, economic complications, economics, energy consumption, greenpeace, lightning network vulnerability, miners, policy errors, privacy, private transactions, proof of work, renewable energy, security, shitcoins, sidechains, tornado cash indictment, trust issues, u.s. federal reserve
Chris and the bitcoin dad discuss Tor, a privacy network, adding proof of work, some Drivechain talking points both for and against, and a revision of Bitcoin energy usage studies that was a long time coming.