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.