News
Economics
Lyn Alden's June newsletter is all about Demand Destruction (https://www.lynalden.com/june-2022-newsletter/)
El Salvador’s government is gambling on bitcoin (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/06/16/el-salvadors-government-is-gambling-on-bitcoin): The Economist magazine on the problems of the Bukele Regime
SBF the founder of FTX wants to be an altcoin central bank (https://decrypt.co/103319/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-has-responsibility-to-step-in-and-stem-crypto-contagion) except not really
Aaaand he's providing $250m of revolving credit (https://nitter.net/BlockFiZac/status/1539216594383028224) to Blockfi
Tokenomics
Solend, Solana based lending protocol, wanted to steal a whale's $120m deposit, got backlash, so now want to rugpull liquidate in a different way (https://blog.solend.fi/slnd3-introduce-account-borrow-limit-19030792eb8c)
Privacy
DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing (https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-drops-below-100-million-searches-per-day-385835), might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue
Former lead dev of Wasabi 2.0 Wallet thinks the latest release is not safe to use (https://nitter.net/mHaGqnOACyFm0h5/status/1536442355003293700)
Wasabi says it's not being reckless, the release is just so great it doesn't need testing (https://nitter.net/wasabiwallet/status/1536300778461310976)
We mention Bloom Filters (https://iq.opengenus.org/spvs-and-bloom-filters-in-bitcoin-protocol/), a fascinating bit of bitcoin engineering
China weaponizing health screening codes (https://archive.ph/rInEJ) to crush protestors against bank account confiscations
A CBDC would cut out several steps in this problem
Bitcoin Education
Bolt Hackathon tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/c/bolt-fun) on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning
Certified Bitcoin Professional test (https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/)
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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)
Corrections
None today!
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)
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/)
Economics
Lyn Alden's June newsletter is all about Demand Destruction (https://www.lynalden.com/june-2022-newsletter/)
El Salvador’s government is gambling on bitcoin (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/06/16/el-salvadors-government-is-gambling-on-bitcoin): The Economist magazine on the problems of the Bukele Regime
SBF the founder of FTX wants to be an altcoin central bank (https://decrypt.co/103319/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-has-responsibility-to-step-in-and-stem-crypto-contagion) except not really
Aaaand he's providing $250m of revolving credit (https://nitter.net/BlockFiZac/status/1539216594383028224) to Blockfi
Tokenomics
Solend, Solana based lending protocol, wanted to steal a whale's $120m deposit, got backlash, so now want to rugpull liquidate in a different way (https://blog.solend.fi/slnd3-introduce-account-borrow-limit-19030792eb8c)
Privacy
DuckDuckGo searches seem to be plateauing (https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-drops-below-100-million-searches-per-day-385835), might just be a blip but demand for privacy seems to be a persistent issue
Former lead dev of Wasabi 2.0 Wallet thinks the latest release is not safe to use (https://nitter.net/mHaGqnOACyFm0h5/status/1536442355003293700)
Wasabi says it's not being reckless, the release is just so great it doesn't need testing (https://nitter.net/wasabiwallet/status/1536300778461310976)
We mention Bloom Filters (https://iq.opengenus.org/spvs-and-bloom-filters-in-bitcoin-protocol/), a fascinating bit of bitcoin engineering
China weaponizing health screening codes (https://archive.ph/rInEJ) to crush protestors against bank account confiscations
A CBDC would cut out several steps in this problem
Bitcoin Education
Bolt Hackathon tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/c/bolt-fun) on youtube if you want to get started building on lightning
Certified Bitcoin Professional test (https://cryptoconsortium.org/certifications/)
Feedback
Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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)
Corrections
None today!
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)
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/)
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