Episode 105: Europe's on the Move

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-Show

• Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project

  • ECB's Digital Euro CBDC Project Moves to 'Preparation' Phase

• The actual report details how the digital euro is basically a credit card processing system with the ECB as the clearinghouse

News

• Wordpress site hackers are using Binance Smart Chain to host malware payloads
  • free to call contract data
  • cheap to update the contract contents on BSC
  • Using a storage function on-chain to store payload

• We hope that Jimmy Zhong, who plead guilty to 'hacking' the Silk Road, serves his prison sentence without issue and lands on his feet

  • There is also a documentary about Jimmy's story

• Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 "All your mempool are belong to us"

• US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF -source | Reuters

US SEC does not plan to appeal court decision on Grayscale bitcoin ETF

• A coindesk editorial on Ripple is very pro CBDC while failing to make a case for any social benefits, and completely missing the huge social costs of closed payment systems, of course it was written by Ripple's VP for CBDCs

Economics

• Bitcoin beats inflation if you hold it long enough

Privacy

• The EU keeps trying to eliminate digital privacy and in a weird twist, this effort is being pushed by Aston Kutcher of 'That 70s Show'

Altcoins

• Coinbase sort of out of india

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech #273 covers BitVM, a lightning vulnerability and much more

• Fidelity Investment's latest bitcoin report is an excellent summary on bitcoin's value proposition

  • Value of scarcity
  • Network effects
  • No real competition from other digital assets
  • Game theory of bitcoin forks

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