Episode 113: Wet Hot Financial Surveillance

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-Show

• Bad entropy will get your bitcoins stolen

News

• This cycle's bitcoin environmental FUD is probably going to be water usage

  • Shiny new FUD ammo takes media by storm!
  • Rebuttal of BBCNews article, and the Underlying Study, on Bitcoin Water Usage – Batcoinz

• Unchained surveyed US investors and sentiment is very bullish on bitcoin

Economics

• What is Global R*? And why is it still falling?
  • A Mechanistic model based view of society, humans, and economics is wrong
  • It's not good enough to centrally manage human existence

Privacy

• The US Treasury wants to expand warrantless mass surveillance and sanction free speach via software in order to strengthen its ability to sanction

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech covers liquidity advertisements, a feature of dual-funded channels on lightning offered by Core lightning from Blockstream
  • both parties contribute a utxo to a lightning channel
  • liquidity on both sides of the channel at opening

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