Episode 100: Fortress Not Trustworthy

September 16th, 2023  |  57 mins 1 sec

altcoins, baller boosts, bitcoin education, bitcoin meetup group, bitmex, blockchain, boosts, brian armstrong, censorship, cold storage, contact information, customer funds, dj, drivechains, economics, exchange, feedback, fiat, fortress trust, hardblock bitcoin exchange, legacy financial agreements, lightning integration, lightning wallet, matrix channel, ofac, on-chain assurances, onecoin founder sentenced, optech, podcast, prediction markets, privacy, ripple acquisition, rshackleford, tarot assets, themuso, tokyo citadel, u.s. debt collection, xfce

Chris and the bitcoin dad celebrate 100 episodes as bad news swamps the Binance crypto exchange, OneCoin gets into the news again, and bitcoin development might be responding to stablecoin demand.

Episode 91: Stock to Farce

July 22nd, 2023  |  51 mins

altcoins, ban, bitcoin, bitcoin institutional investor, bitcoin optech, bitcoin talk, bitmex, bunker, cftc commissioner, coin center, crosseus, crypto businesses, deficit spending, effective altruists, foreign financing, ftx docs, ftx foundation, gary gensler, gloria zhao, gold price manipulation, human genetic enhancement, justified, kuwait, mathematically ridiculous, merch, miners, parallels, privacy, regulatory arbitrage, research, sam's brother gabe, sovereign island nation, speculation, stock to flow model, treasuries, twitter, us government, valid blocks, waiting for confirmation, xrp legal ruling

Chris and the bitcoin dad laugh about the FTX Effective Altruists' plans to build a supervillain island, the parallels between Gensler's gold ETF days and the bitcoin ETFs, and discuss the bitcoin stock to flow model.

Episode 57: Bitcoin, Crypto's Designated Driver

January 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 26 mins

bitmex, bsv, csw, lamia, metaverse, sbf, stephenson, zoltan

Chris and the bitcoin dad pillory a new metaverse blockchain whitepaper, speculate on bitcoin in the European Union, and cover a blog post exploring the risks of exchanges listing BSV with its new coin seizure protocol.

Also some end of year boosts!

Thank you to everyone who listened this year and participated in the discussion!

Episode 5: End of the Petrodollar - Weirdly, not alarmist

March 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 14 mins

arthurhayes, bitcoin, bitmex, hodlhodl, petrodollar, samourai, warren

Chris and the Bitcoin Dad cover the end of a monetary era, how bitcoin fixes this, and how to get bitcoin on your own wallet fast.