Aidan

The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

Pre-Show A very reasonable discussion on HN around the WTF Happened in 1971 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482646) website, the world is complicated, there are many ways to interpret history and the present, none are particularly satisfying News Binance.US cuts third of staff as CEO Brian Shroder leaves (https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-us-cuts-third-of-staff-ceo-brian-shroder-leaves-report) Binance.US, the United States arm of the crypto exchange, has cut around a third of its staff — or 100 positions — with its president and CEO Brian Shroder also departing the firm. Binance.US Statment to CoinTelegraph: “The [Securities and Exchange Commission’s] aggressive attempts to cripple our industry and the resulting impacts on our business have real-world consequences for American jobs and innovation, and this is an unfortunate example of that.” They also say "not dead yet!" “more than seven years of financial runway” amid its move to becoming a crypto-only exchange. Cool post on the Japanese bitcoin community (https://stacker.news/items/250544), I knew wiz and Arthur Hayes hang out in Japan, but would love to incorporate the bitcoin scene into a trip there Fortress Lost Customer Funds Prior to Acquisition by Ripple (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fortress-lost-customer-funds-prior-to-acquisition-by-ripple/) The Fortress Trust security breach (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fortress-trust-breach) is a fiat story, its not scary or exciting, just predictable with the ancient messy tech stack that U.S. corporate financial IT demands Economics Is an introduction to U.S. debt collection (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-consumer-finance/) economics? It's certainly historical, and it speaks to the fragility of legacy financial agreements when compared to the on chain assurances of bitcoin Altcoins 1 of the 2 'OneCoin' founders has been sentenced (https://www.theblock.co/post/250564/one-coin-co-founder-sentenced-to-20-years-and-fined-300-million) for his role in a crypto themed Multi-level marketing ponzi scheme There is a podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-missing-cryptoqueen/id1480370173) Brian Armstrong 🛡️ on X (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1701806701853507886) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin optech includes movement on tarot assets (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/13/) on lightning, another client side validated protocol Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Boosts Notes: https://Tokyocitadel.com https://hardblock.com.au Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

Java developers are getting the Oracle shakedown, openAI is running out of money, and more.

A ‘paper computer’ for Bitcoin checksums and Shamir Secret Sharing may seem absurd, but that’s what we’re talking about in this episode! This project is a scheme to generate, encode, checksum, split and recover Bitcoin secret keys, using pencil, paper and lookup tables (alternately, volvelles). We discuss codex32 and the motivation behind it with Andrew Poelstra (Director of Research, Blockstream). Note this is the first of a two part episode. In this first part we discuss: Bitcoin private keys today Multi signature and Shamir Secret Sharing contrasted Where to keep shards or keys Error correction Risks with Hardware wallets (even though you should still use them) BIP39 vs codex32 Limitations of the paper computer (Volvelles) Links: codex32 website codex32 github Blockstream store Sponsors: Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Mempool.space Base58  SL links: Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast

Pre-Show So, That's the End of Bitcoin Then (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/20/so-thats-the-end-of-bitcoin-then/?sh=2f7e86705d71), pack it up everyone, let's go home 14 years ago “Bitcoin Is Dead” - The #1 Database of Notable Bitcoin Skeptics (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/) News Economics The discussion around the Federal Reserve raising their inflation target to 3% (https://archive.li/VehhJ) assumes many things: Strong relationship between FFs and Inflation Philips curve relationship between Employment and Inflation These are not small assumptions! Six AI Themes to Consider - Lyn Alden (https://www.lynalden.com/august-2023-newsletter/) discusses expectations around AI and bitcoin in the context of scarce assets in a world of increasing money supply Privacy Southern District of New York | Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations | United States Department of Justice (https://archive.ph/1vpkB#selection-2497.186-2497.487) Accusation seems to be based more on activities surrounding the TC protocol, not necessarily the actual software development Roman Storm and Roman Semenov allegedly operated Tornado Cash and knowingly facilitated this money laundering. While publicly claiming to offer a technically sophisticated privacy service, Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the fruits of their crimes Coin center alleges that the Tornado Cash indictments run counter to FinCEN guidance (https://www.coincenter.org/new-tornado-cash-indictments-seem-to-run-counter-to-fincen-guidance/) The allegations include that the defendants: (a) paid for web hosting services for a user interface that allowed users to send transaction messages to the underlying smart contracts (https://www.coincenter.org/education/key-concepts/smart-contracts/), (b) paid for a software repository (Github) where smart contract and user interface software and documentation was hosted, and (c) had (for a time before May 2020) “complete control” over the Tornado Cash (https://www.coincenter.org/education/advanced-topics/how-does-tornado-cash-work/) smart contracts. Altcoins Prime Trust Crypto Custodian Lost $8M in Doomed Terra-LUNA Stablecoin Investment, CEO Says (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/25/prime-trust-lost-8m-in-doomed-terra-stablecoin-investment-ceo-says/) Bitcoin Education Let's talk chainstate size (https://twitter.com/openoms/status/1694066634355327381) vs blockchain size and how that is an technical important scaling limit Latest bitcoin optech #263 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/23/) is all about software updates Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcasht/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

I'm joined by guests Nifty, Nadav & Vivek to go through the list. Housekeeping 00:01:41 Opensats Vulnerability Disclosures 00:02:22 BitForge: Fireblocks researchers uncover vulnerabilities in over 15 major wallet providers 00:03:58 Electrum v4.4.6 release fixes several lightning-related security issues Bitcoin • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:10:04 Electrum v4.4.6 00:11:03 nix-bitcoin 00:20:59 Blockstream Green iOS v4.0.11 00:25:11 Bitcoin Tribe v2.2.1 00:25:19 Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.4 00:25:28 Ronin UI v2.2.0 00:25:51 10101 v1.2.1 Interlude: Opcodes affecting L2 🧨 00:28:19 The guests discuss the different opcodes and specifically how they will affect L2. Bitcoin (cont.) • Software Releases & Project Updates (cont.) 00:44:20 Trezor v23.8.1 • Project Spotlight 00:45:01 Smart Vaults (formally Coinstr) 00:46:00 Nodeyez 00:46:30 Satoshi Agent 00:46:52 Royllo Explorer 00:47:20 Sovereign Stack 00:47:37 SeedHammer 00:48:27 Chaincase - Free your coins from their linear public history without ever taking control Interlude: Privacy Solutions 00:49:10 The guests discuss their thoughts on different privacy solutions Lightning & L2(+) • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:56:18 Core Lightning v23.08rc3 "Satoshi's Successor" 01:03:31 Phoenix Android v2.0.0 01:05:27 LND 01:11:46 Zeus v0.8.0 01:12:10 Alby v3.1.0 🌌 A Cosmic Embrace 01:14:33 Mutiny Node v0.4.12 01:15:39 Wallet of Satoshi v2.2.5 01:16:02 Blink v2.2.111 01:16:10 Clams v1.8.3 01:20:19 BitBanana v0.6.6 01:20:32 Lightning Terminal v0.10.5-alpha 01:20:50 Osmo v2.5.0 01:21:07 Stacker News 01:21:23 Joltz Rewards • Project Spotlight 01:21:47 StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network 01:21:58 Lnshort.it 01:22:18 Lightning-GPT 01:22:31 Bitmatrix 01:22:43 Voltpay 01:22:51 Emeralize Privacy Software • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:24:15 SimpleX Chat [v5.2.3] Boosts 01:25:06 Shoutout to top boosters: 🏆 @cumr0cket, @transisto, @apemithrandir, @dubravko, @chunky, @michaelmatulef & @garykrause_ Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 01:27:23 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters News & Noteworthy • Lightning & L2(+) 01:30:25 LND and LDK successfully interop test blinded paths • Business 1:30:37 Parker Lewis and Will Cole join Zaprite • Funding 01:30:54 BitGo Secures $100M Series C Funding • Mining 01:31:37 Bitmain, Anchorage Expected to Take Equity in Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific • Political 01:31:49 Pro-Bitcoin Candidate Javier Milei Snags Primary Presidential Elections in Argentina Reads • 01:33:05:07 Here's a list of our top recently published reads: Torq's Twitter Thread on HTLCs How Lightning Powers the Global AI Economy ... Where the Machines Pay You⚡🤖🌎 by Ryan Gentry Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes by JamesOB GrapheneOS: De-Google your phone and improve your privacy by Bitcoiner.guide Field Report: Implementing MuSig2 by Brandon Black from BitGo How (Actually) Open AI Wins by Max Webster Bitcoin’s Lighting Network: Fast, Cheap, And A Lifeline For Latin America by Mickey Koss Looking Ahead: Lightning Payments in 2025 by River No-Code + AI + Bitcoin: The Ultimate Trio for Future Workflows by Alby Fiat Ruins Everything by Jimmy Song Links & Contacts Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-47

Microsoft's dirty old API games, the new, even more restrictive rules Apple developers will now have to follow, and why Google's "Web Integrity API" seems gross.

Pre-Show Thank you Amy for a wonderful summary (https://amycastor.com/2023/08/03/crypto-collapse-terra-judge-repudiates-ripple-finding-razzlekhan-cops-a-plea-binances-fdusd-stablecoin-coindesk-sold-smart-contracts-still-stupid/) of the last week's crypto screwups and absurdities Payment problems are affecting our friends on Etsy, the online marketplace's payments system is holding up to 75% of sellers funds (https://qz.com/etsy-scrambling-avert-seller-strike-over-payment-reserv-1850702861) due to being garbage, as well as crypto journalist Amy Castor as patreon has had some bounced (https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530) payments News At the same time as Fitch's downgrade: Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tether-bought-1529-btc-in-q2/) Economics Fitch’s Debt Downgrade Is Unlikely to Deter Borrowing, Investors Say - The New York Times (https://archive.ph/En2KZ#selection-831.170-831.441) both Democrats and Republicans unmovable on policies that could improve the country’s fiscal position. These include, he added, changes to taxes, military spending, and Social Security and Medicare, which are expected to face ballooning costs as more baby boomers retire. Fitch's US Rating Downgrade Spotlights Debt Worry as Recession Fear Fades (https://archive.ph/C36k0#selection-6125.0-6125.295) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the downgrade “arbitrary” and “outdated.” Yellen has argued that rather than looking at debt-to-GDP, a better measure of sustainability is inflation-adjusted interest payments as a share of the economy — and that metric hasn’t been flashing warning lights. Privacy Privacy and paypal are non compatible. GrapheneOS, a private mobile android operating system: "Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account (https://nitter.at/GrapheneOS/status/1684643898319052800?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations Altcoins Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/worldcoin-europe-kenya-3rd-parties/) the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany It also has typical altcoin tokenomics (https://decrypt.co/149865/worldcoin-tokenomics-at-launch-supply-market-maker-loans), i.e. low float and majority of coins in early investor hands Uniswap Delists HEX Token After SEC Deems It An “Unregistered Security” (https://www.newsbtc.com/news/defi/uniswap-delists-hex-token-after-sec-deems-it-an-unregistered-security/) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #262 is heavy on the software updates (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/02/) and includes discussions of the pitfalls of blind signature signing Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

Pre-Show Thank you Amy for a wonderful summary (https://amycastor.com/2023/08/03/crypto-collapse-terra-judge-repudiates-ripple-finding-razzlekhan-cops-a-plea-binances-fdusd-stablecoin-coindesk-sold-smart-contracts-still-stupid/) of the last week's crypto screwups and absurdities Payment problems are affecting our friends on Etsy, the online marketplace's payments system is holding up to 75% of sellers funds (https://qz.com/etsy-scrambling-avert-seller-strike-over-payment-reserv-1850702861) due to being garbage, as well as crypto journalist Amy Castor as patreon has had some bounced (https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530) payments News At the same time as Fitch's downgrade: Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tether-bought-1529-btc-in-q2/) Economics Fitch’s Debt Downgrade Is Unlikely to Deter Borrowing, Investors Say - The New York Times (https://archive.ph/En2KZ#selection-831.170-831.441) both Democrats and Republicans unmovable on policies that could improve the country’s fiscal position. These include, he added, changes to taxes, military spending, and Social Security and Medicare, which are expected to face ballooning costs as more baby boomers retire. Fitch's US Rating Downgrade Spotlights Debt Worry as Recession Fear Fades (https://archive.ph/C36k0#selection-6125.0-6125.295) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the downgrade “arbitrary” and “outdated.” Yellen has argued that rather than looking at debt-to-GDP, a better measure of sustainability is inflation-adjusted interest payments as a share of the economy — and that metric hasn’t been flashing warning lights. Privacy Privacy and paypal are non compatible. GrapheneOS, a private mobile android operating system: "Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account (https://nitter.at/GrapheneOS/status/1684643898319052800?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations Altcoins Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/worldcoin-europe-kenya-3rd-parties/) the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany It also has typical altcoin tokenomics (https://decrypt.co/149865/worldcoin-tokenomics-at-launch-supply-market-maker-loans), i.e. low float and majority of coins in early investor hands Uniswap Delists HEX Token After SEC Deems It An “Unregistered Security” (https://www.newsbtc.com/news/defi/uniswap-delists-hex-token-after-sec-deems-it-an-unregistered-security/) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #262 is heavy on the software updates (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/02/) and includes discussions of the pitfalls of blind signature signing Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

Elon Musk trying to build the "everything app" is ridiculous, and the quiet little promise openAI just made with the White House.

News Fednow, the Federal Resrves new payment system for instant payments, has finally launched (https://www.frbservices.org/news/press-releases/072023-fednow-live-announcement) with '35 early-adopting banks and credit unions, as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service' The US House of Representatives Fianncial Services Comittee, a House subgroup focusing on financial law, submitted a bipartisan crypto market bill (https://www.theblock.co/post/241508/democrats-oppose-crypto-market-overhaul-but-stablecoin-deal-possible) to the Aggriculture Comitte (which oddly is above it) This bill would then be submitted to the house, likely would not pass Contains the language for ICOs to become sufficiently decentralized and graduate into commodities Economics Commodity traders Goehring and Rozencwajg the patterns of commodity bull runs (https://blog.gorozen.com/blog/the-us-reserve-currency-and-commodities) and the relation to shifts in global monetary standards Jesse Myers, aka CroessusBTC, observes the shifting Overton window of bitcoin (https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/bitcoin-overton-window-lurches-forward) and how very little interest it needs to get really bullish Dedollarization slowly proceeds with Argentina using Chinese RMB to pay off IMF debt (https://www.ntd.com/imf-hints-allowing-countries-to-use-chinese-yuan-for-debt-repayment_931020.html) Privacy The Director of Investigations at Chainalysis, a blockchain surveillance and ant-privacy firm, unaware of scientific basis (https://archive.ph/MYkId) of their surveillance product The actual recorded testimony clarifies that Chainalysis does not validate (https://archive.ph/pGdx7) their results (why would they? Just trust us) The FBI arrested the admin of a Mastadon server on charges unrelated to the server, but seized all his electronic devices (common clause in arrest warrants) wich included a backup of all server data (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) Just getting off twitter doesn't solve the problem of privacy online Energy and Bitcoin Yet another bitcoin argument for mining logically reaching zero emissions (https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/24/the-single-most-important-truth-about-bitcoin-mining-energy-and-the-environment/?utm_source=breakdown.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=worldcoin-controversy-reactions) But what's the real energy disconnect between Greenpeace/COP21 and bitcoin energy maximalists? Doomberg thinks that the core fallacy is the economic theory of degrowth (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22408556/save-planet-shrink-economy-degrowth) that associates growth and environmental destruction. Listen to Doomberg, Rozencwag, and Anas Alhaji on energy investing and shfiting ESG narratives (https://youtu.be/nDYtMvf0aKI?t=1551) Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #261 covers lightning protocol discussions (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/26/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) on the bitcoin dev mailing list, as well as an interesting stack overflow where Peter Wuille explains why a bitcoin seed should probably have more than 128 bits of entropy (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/118928), but individual addresses don't Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, James O'Beirne, & Rijndael to go through the list. Housekeeping: 00:02:06 Opensats 00:04:52 Coinkite Bitcoin: • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:06:57 Sparrow v1.7.8 00:25:54 Mercury Wallet v0.9.0 00:27:04 Fully Noded 00:28:48 MyCitadel v1.4 00:29:31 Nunchuk iOS v1.9.2 / Android 1.9.3 00:35:10 BlueWallet v6.4.6 00:35:28 Blixt Wallet v0.6.8 00:37:52 BDK v1.0.0-alpha.10 00:42:25 Keeper v1.0.7 00:42:44 BTC Pay Server v1.10.3 00:42:59 Parmanode Update 00:43:10 RGB Core v0.10.5 00:44:38 StartOS v0.3.4.3 00:44:59 Bisq v1.9.12 00:45:11 Peach v0.2.11 / v0.2.10 00:45:31 Orange Pill App 1.4.4 00:45:37 BitGo MuSig2 • Project Spotlight 00:47:04 Wallby 00:48:04 PDK 00:50:13 Bitpac 00:51:23 BIP39 Colors Lightning: • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:54:23 Phoenix 3rd Generation Beta 00:56:48 Mutiny Wallet 01:05:27 Mutiny Node 01:05:49 Torq 01:07:21 lnbits 01:07:53 Stacker News 01:08:13 Cashu 01:12:10 Zeus LN node 01:13:40 sphinx-key 01:14:46 Breez SDK Core 01:15:18 Validating Lightning Signer 01:15:49 LN Markets 01:15:58 Pocket 01:16:03 Oak Node 01:16:08 BitBanana 01:16:27 10101 01:16:48 8333.mobi 01:16:59 CivKit Roadmap 01:17:25 Bolt.observer 01:17:30 Alby • Project Spotlight 01:17:41 Orb 01:18:17 P-38 01:18:47 LNDg 01:18:55 Minibits 01:19:05 Lightning Prisms 01:20:01 Git Lurker Nostr: • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:20:30 Amethyst 01:20:49 Primal.net Privacy Software: • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:21:02 Simplex Chat v5.2.0-beta.2 Nostr: • Project spotlight 01:23:02 Zapple Pay by Ben Carman 01:23:19 Zap.Stream Boosts: 01:23:25 Shoutout to top boosters: @ahanniga, @michaelmatulef, @greggrahamtx, @apemithrandir, @vake, @owen_ & @dash News & Noteworthy: • Bitcoin 01:26:14 Block MDK Update 01:26:33 f2pool Transaction Accelerator 01:26:47 Chris Belcher health issues. • Lightning & L2 01:27:17 Attempted lightning backends vulnerability exploit 01:27:48 Lightning Labs AI For All 01:32:49 Simple Bitcoin Wallet to remove lightning • Community 01:36:35 Bitcoin Park celebrating first year • Business & Finance 01:37:57 MicroStrategy 12.3k Bitcoin purchase 01:39:22 Brazilian Bitcoin Startup Bipa Raises $1.4 Million 01:39:28 Binance Completes LN Integration • Government & Political 01:39:44 Capital gains tax for Bitcoin in Slovakia reduced 01:39:52 North Carolina House Advances Bill To Study Virtual Currency 01:39:57 Kraken Ordered to Turn Over User Info to IRS 01:40:04 Belarus Looks to Ban Peer-to-Peer Crypto Transactions 01:40:14 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holds $100,001-$250,000 BTC • Privacy 01:40:29 Huobi accidentally exposed a set of credentials enabling access to cloud storage 01:40:59 BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Surveillance Reads: • 01:41:16 Here's a list of our top recently published reads: Deep dive into Oracle-Based Conditional payments A Technical Overview of Virtual PSBTs in the Taproot Assets Protocol A Technical Walkthrough of Hash Time Locked Contracts and Lightning Channel Operations Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Open Music is Bringing a New Sound to Podcasts The Rise of Lightning Service Providers Simplicity: Holes and Side Effects Pseudonymity: An FAQ for Bitcoiners The many faces of Schnorr Introducing the new Phoenix: a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet Building Blocks of Simplicity: Values and Types Zapplepay: Zap Even if They Say it's ForbiddenBuying non-KYC Bitcoin with AgoraDesk Guide Blixt Wallet Guide Links & Contacts Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-43

Pre-Show The FTX Foundation planned to buy the island of Naru (https://twitter.com/0x_tracy/status/1682341544009801728?s=12&t=E9EIlRX-vHxbQ8g23lQU3A) to build a supervillain's lair A bitmex blog post discusses Gary Gensler's history (https://blog.bitmex.com/genslers-done-it-all-before/) as CFTC comissioner during alleged gold price manipulation that turned out to be justified (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20) News Crosseus, a bitcoin institutional investor, reminds us that the stock to flow model still exists (https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/stock-to-flow-reality) and might be direcitonally correct, of course its mathematically ridiculous (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/why-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-is-not-useful) Regulatory arbitrage for crypto businesses is no walk in the park after Kuwait bans bitcoin (https://archive.ph/ISf9t) Economics Is the US Government relying less on foreign financing of deficit spending (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/07/19/time-to-look-at-foreign-demand-for-the-incredibly-ballooning-us-national-debt/) or is the rest of the world not able to consume the current massive issueances of treasuries? Altcoins The XRP legal ruling is a bit more complicated (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/analysis-of-sec-vs-ripple/id1521896742?i=1000621436122) than we thought, a great conversation from Coin Center Bitcoin Education A Bitcoin Talk describes how miners find valid blocks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9438.msg136344#msg136344) really well Bitcoin Optech #260 features the last waiting for confirmation (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/19/) segment from Gloria Zhao and Merch Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

The Path to Bitcoin

by @user3448517116136614

Mike updates us on his development adventures in Unreal 5, signs the Vision Pro might be a flop, and answer questions about abandoning Red Hat's platform.

I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, Rob Hamilton & Alex Leishman to go through the list. Housekeeping 00:01:53 #LearnToBuild 00:09:18 COLDCARD PRs 00:17:44 Censorship rant: Damus vs Apple Security Updates 00:24:11 Firmware Extraction: Evil-Maid Attacks on Blockstream Jade Hardware Wallet Bitcoin • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:31:04 COLDCARD 00:41:08 Sparrow 01:00:26 Nunchuk iOS 01:00:37 Blockstream Green Desktop 01:01:15 Keeper 01:01:53 Trezor 01:02:09 Umbrel 01:04:14 StartOS • Project Spotlight: 01:18:58 mnemonikey 01:19:44 Runcitadel 01:19:54 BitcoinExplorer.org 01:20:32 tapsim Lightning • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:20:42 Alby 01:21:09 Blink 01:21:32 cashu 01:22:06 Mutiny Wallet 01:22:58 mutiny-node 01:24:21 Eclair 01:26:05 TORQ 01:28:53 Voltage Surge 01:29:05 Boltz 01:29:18 Lightning Terminal 01:29:28 Zebedee 01:29:33 Stacker News • Project Spotlight 01:29:46 LDK Node 01:29:59 Coffee Plugin Manager 01:30:15 cashu-rs-mint 01:30:21 Lightning Piggy Nostr • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:30:29 Primal One-Tap Zaps: • Project Spotlight 01:30:47 Oak Node Boosts 00:44:10 Shoutout to top boosters: @apemithrandir, @dubravko, @michaelmatulef Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 01:32:11 [256] - Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments 01:32:27 [255] - Discussion about the taproot annex: & Draft BIP for silent payments News & Noteworthy • Bitcoin 01:32:38 Ledger Recover Cryptographic Protocol White Paper 01:33:01 Bitkey invites first external customers in Beta launch 01:33:06 Binance Pool launches the BTC Transaction Accelerator 01:33:11 Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Nodebox 01:33:42 Bitcoin Centric-ai "Spirit Of Satoshi" Unveiled • Lightning 01:34:13 Binance joins the lightning network 01:34:49 Lightning network is approaching ATH levels 01:34:58 Santander blog post highlights benefits of LN on scalability • Misc 01:35:06 taproot-assets • Finance 01:36:34 Crypto custody firm Prime Trust has a "shortfall in customer funds 01:41:51 The Bitcoin ETF Race 01:42:10 Hong Kong's HSBC allows customers to trade Bitcoin ETFs • Shitcoin Wreckage 01:42:22 Unregistered Securities Removed from Robinhood • Security 01:42:29 North Korean Hackers Pocketed More Than $100M in Atomic Wallet Hack 01:43:30 Malicious 'Trezor Wallet Suite' App in Apple AppStore Steals Crypto •  Funding 01:47:24 New Spiral grantee - Matthew Ramsden • Mining 01:47:53 Riot Purchases 7.6 Eh/s Of Next Generation Miners From MicroBT, Manufactured In The United States Reads 01:48:00 Deep Dive into Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A detailed exploration of zero-knowledge proofs 01:48:08 Ark Layer 2: A Groundbreaking Development in Bitcoin Transactional Landscape 01:48:13 Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship 01:48:27 The Grug Brained Developer Links & Contacts Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-41

Pre-Show Crypto Firm Prime Trust Placed Into Receivership (https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-firm-prime-trust-placed-into-receivership-7554247), affecting many bitcoin businesses Crypto Firms Swan, Coinbits Disclose Prime Trust Ties as Fallout Continues - Decrypt (https://decrypt.co/146601/swan-coinbits-disclose-prime-trust-ties-fallout-continues) Alistair Milne on Twitter (https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1674801660382830594): "This address: bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2 ... has accumulated $3.5billion of #BTC in just 44 days @saylor needs to up his game @Tether_to is doing rookie numbers by comparison https://t.co/q5KHRUtoTZ" / Twitter News Apple is removing damus, a popular nostr (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/damus-about-to-be-removed-from-apples-app-store/) client jack on Twitter: "Removed from the App Storer (https://twitter.com/jack/status/1673640974143168512) for enabling tipping to everyone in the world without the need for a bank, payment card, or government permission. https://t.co/kfeQNfal8Q" Economics The Bank of England is aware of liquidity problems, but creates arbitrary research (https://bankunderground.co.uk/2023/06/29/funding-structures-and-resilience-to-shocks-after-a-decade-of-regulatory-reform/) instead of lowering interest rates Where is the recession we've all been waiting for (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/06/29/waiting-for-the-promised-recession-economic-growth-even-stronger-than-feared-treasury-yields-spike/)? OPEC oil output posts small drop in June ahead of Saudi cut (https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2023/06/opec-oil-output-posts-small-drop-in-june-ahead-of-saudi-cut/) OPEC Forecasts 23% Rise in Global Oil Demand Through 2045 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/opec-forecasts-23-rise-in-global-oil-demand-through-2045/ar-AA1d3IN8) Bitcoin Education A beginner's guide to creating a wallet (https://www.athena-alpha.com/sparrow-wallet/) using Sparrow How to get started with RoboSats (https://bitcoiner.guide/robosats/), another guide You can Self-Host RoboSats (https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats) Boltz (https://boltz.exchange/) Also an Umbrel app A lean bitcoin optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/06/28) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Boosts FROM: adriatic_dany 99,999 Sats There's been some moderate hype (with the inevitable price speculation/manipulation aka p'n'd) last year around a proof of work project called Kaspa. I'm not invested (yet) because I'd love first to know your opinion, my technological analysis skills are lacking. I understand all the buzz is about their GhostDAG protocol posed to solve the historical dilemma way more efficiently than Lightning and the fact that they fair launched with no premined/presold coins and no company behind the project Home - Kaspa (https://kaspa.org/) What is Kaspa (KAS), and How Does it Work? | CoinGecko (https://www.coingecko.com/learn/what-is-kaspa-kas) The Kaspa Founding Contributors. The Architects Behind Kaspa’s Success (https://medium.com/kaspa-currency/the-kaspa-founding-contributors-c2f06a2eb74c) Kaspa is the fastest, open-source, decentralized & fully scalable Layer-1 in the world. The world’s first blockDAG – a digital ledger enabling parallel blocks and instant transaction confirmation – built on a robust proof-of-work engine with rapid single-second block intervals. Built by industry pioneers, led by the people. "completely open source with no central governance – following in the ethos of coins like Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Monero." 💰 Initial funding from Polychain Capital supported Kaspa's launch, and the project forgoes allocations or premine to ensure transparency and fairness. 👥 Yonatan Sompolinsky, Michael Sutton, Shai Wyborski, Elichai Turkel, Ori Newman, and Mike Zak are key contributors and core developers of Kaspa. Launch Date November 7, 2021 (no premine, no allocated coins) Uses lots of Rust, Go, and others KAS has a circulating supply of 12.4B and maximum supply of 28.7B. It was launched with no re-mine, 0 pre-sales, and no token allocations. It has an emission program that halves yearly through seamless monthly reductions by a factor of (1/2)^(1/12). Hashing Algorithm kHeavyHash Consensus Proof of Work BlockDAG How they solve the Blockchain Trilemma To solve this tradeoff, Kaspa’s consensus layer uses GhostDAG, a proof-of-work consensus protocol that generalizes Nakamoto’s chain into a directed acyclic graph of blocks ( blockDAG). GhostDAG incorporates”orphan” blocks into the chain to form a blockDAG, and then uses a novel greedy algorithm to order the blocks such that well-connected, honest blocks are favored, quickly and with high probability. GhostDAG allows Kaspa to circumvent the traditional tradeoff of blockchains, improving on block rate by orders of magnitude while maintaining the theoretical security guarantees of Bitcoin. Block time 1 second Circulating Supply 19.39B KAS MAX SUPPLY ~28.7B Market Cap $501.8M Kaspa Forum Filled with Problems (https://imgur.com/a/cbKcP9k) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! 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We open the robe and spend a little time chatting about the software development business.

News Apple banned and then unbanned the zeus lightning app (https://nitter.net/evankaloudis/status/1669297584140165123#m) from its app store Part of a wider policy of banning bitcoin apps (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/the-battle-for-zaps-on-damus-continues/) that facilitate payments Another poposed crypto infrastructure bill (https://www.cato.org/blog/decentralization-defined-house-crypto-discussion-draft-offers-glimmer-hope-us-crypto-policy) in the US House of Representatives looks like another Left/Right issue River, a bitcoin financial company, issued a report on bitcoin vs legacy payments (https://river.com/learn/files/river-payments-report.pdf?ref=blog.river.com) Response to 2022's ECB report that concluded bitcoin can't win (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2693~8d4e580438.en.pdf) vs CBDCs Economics and Banking The Cato Institute, an American libertarian thinktank, polled americans about CBDCs (https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/poll-only-16-americans-support-government-issuing-central-bank-digital-currency) and the results speak to the complexity of money, status, and politics The SEC may be talking back its own limitations (https://www.cato.org/blog/feds-questionable-cbdc-campaign) on allowing a b2b CBDC Privacy Also from the CATO CBDC poll, some American's might be ok with government surveillance (https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1) in their own home if it protected against crime Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #255 covers a discussion on the taproot annex (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/06/14/) a place for additional data for taproot transactions as well as the recent silent payments (https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8) BIP Network node count is one measure of decentralization (https://bitnodes.io/nodes/live-map/), but there are subjective elements Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

News Apple banned and then unbanned the zeus lightning app (https://nitter.net/evankaloudis/status/1669297584140165123#m) from its app store Part of a wider policy of banning bitcoin apps (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/the-battle-for-zaps-on-damus-continues/) that facilitate payments Another poposed crypto infrastructure bill (https://www.cato.org/blog/decentralization-defined-house-crypto-discussion-draft-offers-glimmer-hope-us-crypto-policy) in the US House of Representatives looks like another Left/Right issue River, a bitcoin financial company, issued a report on bitcoin vs legacy payments (https://river.com/learn/files/river-payments-report.pdf?ref=blog.river.com) Response to 2022's ECB report that concluded bitcoin can't win (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2693~8d4e580438.en.pdf) vs CBDCs Economics and Banking The Cato Institute, an American libertarian thinktank, polled americans about CBDCs (https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/poll-only-16-americans-support-government-issuing-central-bank-digital-currency) and the results speak to the complexity of money, status, and politics The SEC may be talking back its own limitations (https://www.cato.org/blog/feds-questionable-cbdc-campaign) on allowing a b2b CBDC Privacy Also from the CATO CBDC poll, some American's might be ok with government surveillance (https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1) in their own home if it protected against crime Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #255 covers a discussion on the taproot annex (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/06/14/) a place for additional data for taproot transactions as well as the recent silent payments (https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8) BIP Network node count is one measure of decentralization (https://bitnodes.io/nodes/live-map/), but there are subjective elements Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)