Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff.

Today's theme is data sovereignty, and we'll check in with two crucial projects that are giving you more options. Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

Pre-Show Rumor? Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca to leave the company after "Recover feature" scandal 👀 (https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1699741300109832623) Alex Mashinsky's assets frozen by US court as part of criminal case (https://cointelegraph.com/news/alex-mashinsky-assets-frozen-court-criminal-case) News Long-Awaited Bitcoin Accounting Rules to Capture Rises, Dips (https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/long-awaited-bitcoin-accounting-rules-to-capture-rises-dips) 🚨 EXPLAINED: Bitcoin Accounting Rule Change (https://twitter.com/Swan/status/1699493620880138532) Privacy JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/joinstr-decentralized-coinjoin-implementation-using-nostr/) Introducing: JoinStr 🦃 A Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation using NOSTR \ stacker news ~nostr (https://stacker.news/items/247580) Altcoins Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium by Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364&ref=nobsbitcoin.com), Vitalik and Chainalysis employee(s) collaborate on a privacy proposal? Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #267 | Bitcoin Optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/06/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) a draft specification (https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/blob/2023-05--tx-compression/doc/compressed_transactions.md) and proposed implementation (https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/pull/3) of compressed Bitcoin transactions 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 Rumor? Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca to leave the company after "Recover feature" scandal 👀 (https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1699741300109832623) Alex Mashinsky's assets frozen by US court as part of criminal case (https://cointelegraph.com/news/alex-mashinsky-assets-frozen-court-criminal-case) News Long-Awaited Bitcoin Accounting Rules to Capture Rises, Dips (https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/long-awaited-bitcoin-accounting-rules-to-capture-rises-dips) 🚨 EXPLAINED: Bitcoin Accounting Rule Change (https://twitter.com/Swan/status/1699493620880138532) Privacy JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/joinstr-decentralized-coinjoin-implementation-using-nostr/) Introducing: JoinStr 🦃 A Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation using NOSTR \ stacker news ~nostr (https://stacker.news/items/247580) Altcoins Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium by Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär, Ameen Soleimani (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364&ref=nobsbitcoin.com), Vitalik and Chainalysis employee(s) collaborate on a privacy proposal? Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #267 | Bitcoin Optech (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/06/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) a draft specification (https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/blob/2023-05--tx-compression/doc/compressed_transactions.md) and proposed implementation (https://github.com/TomBriar/bitcoin/pull/3) of compressed Bitcoin transactions 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/)

Podcasting 2.0 September 8th 2023 Episode 145: "Valuedation" Adam & Dave Review the music 'industry' vs the V4V opportunity - Board members Alberto and Cameron join us for the IPFS Podcasting roundtable ShowNotes Cameron and Alberto We are LIT $PODC Trading Top 100 Chart Russ Says His Album Sales Are Undercounted, Calls Out Major Labels | Complex Ron Ploof Board meeting report Cameron's analysis of IPFS Boostagram BAll Clubhouse is pivoting from live audio to group messaging Courtside Group, Inc. Common Stock (PODC) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 09/08/2023 14:45:53 by Freedom Controller

While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

Pre-Show Sparrow turns 3 today. Public rls - Sep 1st 2020 Sparrow Wallet v1.7.9: Wallet Accounts Summary Dialog & More (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sparrow-wallet-v1-7-9/) News Drivechain Drama Michael Tidwell on X: "10 days ago, I tweeted on Drivechain's (DC) purpose and sidechains (SC). I've gained insights and I'll detail the 8 reasons I've seen that are against it. I will playfully denote people's names to various arguments even though these people are likely not the originators of the…" / X (https://twitter.com/miketwenty1/status/1696943794321588383) NVK GM 🌞⚡️: Shitcoin "new chains" are part of the scam marketi... (https://primal.net/e/note192qur87xt34sxdqd0qd0sy20vnehtqtudcyz2t9pyd9cw5wpfd0skxsqt6) People Pointing out Liquid has gone almost nowhere, still has issues (https://primal.net/e/note1zutfrwkq7g22d88lcsc64rlzectdfpdjdh82ryfqvtlapqh3w0hsq0kqnp) What's a Bitcoin Drivechain and Why Are Devs At Odds Over Its Proposal? - Decrypt (https://decrypt.co/154129/what-is-a-bitcoin-drivechain) 💡 Drivechains, proposed by Paul Sztorc as BIP 300 and BIP 301, introduce native sidechains to Bitcoin, enabling additional features. 🔒 Sidechains are secured through blind merge mining, using Bitcoin's existing miners to secure other blockchains. 🛡️ Critics worry that drivechains may introduce complexity, security risks, and unwanted tokens (referred to as "shitcoins") into the Bitcoin ecosystem. 🔄 Drivechains do not require new assets; they can be used for Bitcoin-related purposes like private and scalable transactions. ⚙️ Some developers express concerns about the peg-out mechanism, which relies on users trusting 51% of Bitcoin's hashrate for an extended period. 💰 Miners are incentivized to keep drivechains active due to fee collection, but concerns remain about potential economic complications and trust issues. 🌐 Advocates believe that drivechains could enhance Bitcoin's competitiveness and eliminate the possibility of other cryptocurrencies surpassing it in the future. Economics Arthur Hayes is back with a macro article on U.S. Federal Reserve policy errors (https://blog.bitmex.com/kite-or-board/) Privacy The actual U.S. Justice Department Tornado Cash indictment (https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl?inline) is amazing, it explains how ETH sort of works (WARNING USG PDF) Roman and co raised money maintained and hosted the TC UI because the UI increases usage/anon set, its not just a small thing according to JD TC had a relayer model to allow additoinal privacy and relayers earn fees In August 2019 Roman and Co had control of the TC smart contract but removed their keys in May 2020 THe DAO they created in December 2020 created the TORN token and gave 30% to the TC founders and investors The DAO token incentivized relayers to hold at least 300 tokens to get preferential access to fees By blocking OFAC addresses from the UI they demonstrated they could have been compliant the entire time, thus were culpable (they were either way since they controlled the UI) There's also a lot of internal communication about how they knew this would not be effective KYC/AML etc The indicment is still broad and bad...were they really opperating an unlicensed money transmitter? More like they were charging people to walk through a nice lobby to the MT rather than the complicated maze in the back Tor is adopting Proof of Work (https://darkdot.com/articles/tor-ddos-leads-to-proof-of-work/) As an anti-DOS, denial of service feature, they have thought a long time about solutions to spam (https://blog.torproject.org/stop-the-onion-denial/) and are now using a solution shared by bitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454855) Energy The cambridge has been overestimating bitcoin carbon intensity (https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/) by a lot (https://twitter.com/DSBatten/status/1697213161894748483) Turns out they were overestimating things by a noteable amount. They have updated their numbers downward. CCAF model overestimated by 16.8% in 2021, and 10.2% in 2022. This is in alignment with my previous research where I suggested earlier this year that their model was overestimating by 20.6% https://batcoinz.com/improving-our-estimate-of-bitcoin-energy-consumption/ Clear evidence that GreenpeaceUSA's claim that Bitcoin used "as much energy as Sweden" was incorrect, and was based on CCAF historical overstatements CCAF say explicitly that based on new estimates: Bitcoin energy use is "comparable to ... tumble dryers in the US" CCAF have not yet revised their emissions estimates beyond the direct impact of revised energy consumption. They are still overestimating emissions by 67.6% due to emission intensity calculations that are both overestimated, and out-of-date (have not been updated since Jan 2022). This is an improvement upon the previous estimates which were out 106% (https://batcoinz.com/accurately-dynamically-calculating-bitcoin-network-emissions/) Bitcoin Mining In the Land of Fire and Ice - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmA4WvohMSQ) Not only does Iceland run almost entirely on renewable energy, it has historically operated at a surplus. Bitcoin miners and other digital asset generators have been buying up that extra energy to power data centers across the island nation. But some environmentalists worry the exponential electricity demands of the controversial asset class will inevitably result in more power plants, which could damage Iceland’s unique ecosystems. Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech reveals a lightning network vulnerability (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/30/) that drives home how experimental it is 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 Sparrow turns 3 today. Public rls - Sep 1st 2020 Sparrow Wallet v1.7.9: Wallet Accounts Summary Dialog & More (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sparrow-wallet-v1-7-9/) News Drivechain Drama Michael Tidwell on X: "10 days ago, I tweeted on Drivechain's (DC) purpose and sidechains (SC). I've gained insights and I'll detail the 8 reasons I've seen that are against it. I will playfully denote people's names to various arguments even though these people are likely not the originators of the…" / X (https://twitter.com/miketwenty1/status/1696943794321588383) NVK GM 🌞⚡️: Shitcoin "new chains" are part of the scam marketi... (https://primal.net/e/note192qur87xt34sxdqd0qd0sy20vnehtqtudcyz2t9pyd9cw5wpfd0skxsqt6) People Pointing out Liquid has gone almost nowhere, still has issues (https://primal.net/e/note1zutfrwkq7g22d88lcsc64rlzectdfpdjdh82ryfqvtlapqh3w0hsq0kqnp) What's a Bitcoin Drivechain and Why Are Devs At Odds Over Its Proposal? - Decrypt (https://decrypt.co/154129/what-is-a-bitcoin-drivechain) 💡 Drivechains, proposed by Paul Sztorc as BIP 300 and BIP 301, introduce native sidechains to Bitcoin, enabling additional features. 🔒 Sidechains are secured through blind merge mining, using Bitcoin's existing miners to secure other blockchains. 🛡️ Critics worry that drivechains may introduce complexity, security risks, and unwanted tokens (referred to as "shitcoins") into the Bitcoin ecosystem. 🔄 Drivechains do not require new assets; they can be used for Bitcoin-related purposes like private and scalable transactions. ⚙️ Some developers express concerns about the peg-out mechanism, which relies on users trusting 51% of Bitcoin's hashrate for an extended period. 💰 Miners are incentivized to keep drivechains active due to fee collection, but concerns remain about potential economic complications and trust issues. 🌐 Advocates believe that drivechains could enhance Bitcoin's competitiveness and eliminate the possibility of other cryptocurrencies surpassing it in the future. Economics Arthur Hayes is back with a macro article on U.S. Federal Reserve policy errors (https://blog.bitmex.com/kite-or-board/) Privacy The actual U.S. Justice Department Tornado Cash indictment (https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl?inline) is amazing, it explains how ETH sort of works (WARNING USG PDF) Roman and co raised money maintained and hosted the TC UI because the UI increases usage/anon set, its not just a small thing according to JD TC had a relayer model to allow additoinal privacy and relayers earn fees In August 2019 Roman and Co had control of the TC smart contract but removed their keys in May 2020 THe DAO they created in December 2020 created the TORN token and gave 30% to the TC founders and investors The DAO token incentivized relayers to hold at least 300 tokens to get preferential access to fees By blocking OFAC addresses from the UI they demonstrated they could have been compliant the entire time, thus were culpable (they were either way since they controlled the UI) There's also a lot of internal communication about how they knew this would not be effective KYC/AML etc The indicment is still broad and bad...were they really opperating an unlicensed money transmitter? More like they were charging people to walk through a nice lobby to the MT rather than the complicated maze in the back Tor is adopting Proof of Work (https://darkdot.com/articles/tor-ddos-leads-to-proof-of-work/) As an anti-DOS, denial of service feature, they have thought a long time about solutions to spam (https://blog.torproject.org/stop-the-onion-denial/) and are now using a solution shared by bitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454855) Energy The cambridge has been overestimating bitcoin carbon intensity (https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/) by a lot (https://twitter.com/DSBatten/status/1697213161894748483) Turns out they were overestimating things by a noteable amount. They have updated their numbers downward. CCAF model overestimated by 16.8% in 2021, and 10.2% in 2022. This is in alignment with my previous research where I suggested earlier this year that their model was overestimating by 20.6% https://batcoinz.com/improving-our-estimate-of-bitcoin-energy-consumption/ Clear evidence that GreenpeaceUSA's claim that Bitcoin used "as much energy as Sweden" was incorrect, and was based on CCAF historical overstatements CCAF say explicitly that based on new estimates: Bitcoin energy use is "comparable to ... tumble dryers in the US" CCAF have not yet revised their emissions estimates beyond the direct impact of revised energy consumption. They are still overestimating emissions by 67.6% due to emission intensity calculations that are both overestimated, and out-of-date (have not been updated since Jan 2022). This is an improvement upon the previous estimates which were out 106% (https://batcoinz.com/accurately-dynamically-calculating-bitcoin-network-emissions/) Bitcoin Mining In the Land of Fire and Ice - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmA4WvohMSQ) Not only does Iceland run almost entirely on renewable energy, it has historically operated at a surplus. Bitcoin miners and other digital asset generators have been buying up that extra energy to power data centers across the island nation. But some environmentalists worry the exponential electricity demands of the controversial asset class will inevitably result in more power plants, which could damage Iceland’s unique ecosystems. Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech reveals a lightning network vulnerability (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/30/) that drives home how experimental it is 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/)

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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/)

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/)

Behind-the-scenes details of a new show in the works, our thoughts on a new genre of Podcasts bursting onto the scene, and we make JB history live on the show.

Pre-Show Sam is back in jail (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/17/sam-bankman-fried-is-now-in-jail/), it only took a few months of witness tampering to revoke his bail FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail over witness tampering (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/us-judge-sends-sam-bankman-fried-to-jail-over-witness-tampering.html) News The bitcoin wallet, only affects seeds generated by libbitcoin library, MilkSad vulnerability is fascinating (https://milksad.info/) and ties into the history of bitcoin, some amazing personalities, the changes in bitcoin's culture over time Andreas is no longer updateing (https://github.com/aantonop) his books, not that its his fault, just part of the CF Bank of Ireland IT blunder (https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/bank-of-ireland-it-blunder-allows-customers-who-have-no-money-get-access-to-cash-at-atms/a510070628.html) allows customers to withdraw more than account balances An etherium based ERC-20 USD stablecoin from PayPal? This is the future of finance (https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2023-08-07-PayPal-Launches-U-S-Dollar-Stablecoin) Watch PayPal Expects New PYUSD Stablecoin Use Throughout DeFi Ecosystem - Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-08-14/paypal-expects-new-pyusd-stablecoin-use-throughout-defi-video) Economics Zoltan Poszar has thought that our banking crisis would end up on the government's balance sheet (https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/can-shadow-banking-be-addressed-without-balance-sheet-sovereign) for a decade China Evergrand, a massive residential property developer, has filed for bankruptcy (https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/1689635894129840129), and it might be China's Lehman moment (https://twitter.com/wu_wei_invest/status/1692415479527457263) Altcoins Some NFT schadenfreude at OpenSea, an altcoin NFT marketplace, strips NFT creators of 'royalty' payments (https://archive.ph/6h1o9#selection-425.3-425.118) they likely thought were consensus enforced Bitcoin Education This bitcoin optech is FIRE (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/08/16/), might be an entire epsisode Yes, there is a bitcoin trained LLM to answer your bitcoin questions (https://chat.bitcoinsearch.xyz/?author=holocat), epic 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 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/)

Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!

Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!

Podcasting 2.0 July 7th 2023 Episode 140: "Shim Theory" Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org - With Board Member s Alecks and Errhead who do the peertube plugin and mor Music Talk and tracks! ShowNotes We are LIT First Boostagram Alecks Gates and Don Kimberlin (Errhead) noagendatube.com Peertube Plugin Dame Duhlurian boostagrams song 2nd anniversary Using the SplitKit Fountain Beta Conshax Podcasting Guide to Increase Listener Support Onboarding with medium=music shim Libsyn no money until 2024 to implement 2.0 namespace No more Spotify via apple MediaMath Owes $100+ Million To At Least 200 Companies Mind the Gap: Influencer economy: The 24/7 sponsorshipmarket that surrounds Gen Z ------------------------------------- Riot in Progress - Heads Up - 14 seconds I Can Be | Podcastindex.org MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 07/07/2023 15:08:30 by Freedom Controller

Pre-Show Millions of dollars lost while moving through an airport (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-police-investigating-c20-million-gold-heist-toronto-airport-2023-04-20/) contrasts with over $10 million in BTC (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/12y32xa/over_10_million_in_btc_was_sent_in_1_transaction/) was sent in 1 transaction this morning, and it cost the sender $5 News Better update LND lightning nodes (https://stacker.news/items/170942) as it looks like a critical vulernability was discovered The release lnd v0.16.1-beta (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.16.1-beta) notes Altcoins Crypto did not cause Signature, Silvergate and SVB collapses, and FTX exposure was minimal per a U.S. Congressional report (https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-27/Crypto-did-not-cause-Signature-Silvergate-and-SVB-collapses-and-FTX-exposure-was-minimal-Congressional-report.html) The report (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12148) istelf Economics and Banking The U.S.A.'s banking crisis is not over (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/04/24/first-republic-discloses-its-a-zombie/) as First Republic limps on A former FDIC official observes that the FDIC is broke (https://podverse.fm/episode/wYVEpVzaC) after nationalizing Sillicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank Arthur's baaaack and on fire with his latest blogpost (https://blog.bitmex.com/exit-liquidity/) on what a dollarized world is from a trade perspective and what comes next (gold then bitcoin?) China's gold reserves (https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2023/02/chinas-gold-market-january-gold-reserves-continued-rise#:~:text=Gold%20reserves%20rose%20further&text=By%20the%20end%20of%20January%2C%20China%27s%20gold%20reserves%20reached%202%2C025,of%20China%27s%20total%20official%20reserves) continue to rise, perhaps as an alternative escape hatch for trade surpluses Lyn Alden is also back discussing the US debt ceiling (https://www.lynalden.com/april-2023-newsletter/) and how it will interact with relativly illiquid financial markets Bitcoin Education How does a smaller bicoin node (https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo) that uses more bandwidth sound? Meet utreexo (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/utreexo/) 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/)

We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one.