Episode 120: Don't Settle for an ETF

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-Show

• Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode

"We're mining around 4.5 EH - closing in on 1% of the network- with equipment in hand to ramp quickly to 8 EH," announced the company.

News

• Blink plugin for BTC Payserver gives custodial lightning payments/receipts to anyone running a BTC Payserver

• The COPA lawsuit, that will determine if CSW can call himself Satoshi, has discovered that CSW's 'newly found' Satoshi evidence is overwhelmingly fake and COPA has decilined a desperate last minute settlment offer from CSW

• CSW Forgeries-COPAvWright.pdf

Economics

• Chinese stocks suffer, likely due to reduced bank lending, another sign of tightening global monetary conditions

• Fed Unexpectedly Kills Bank "Free Money" Bailout-Fund Arbitrage Scheme As It Ends BTFP Program | ZeroHedge

ETF: FTX Still Haunting BTC Users

• FTX sold about $1 bln of Grayscale's bitcoin ETF since its approval

• Vijay Boyapati 🦢 on X: "1/ There was a much more important fraud than SBF's embezzlement that took place in 2022. It was a fraud (allegedly) perpetrated by one of the oldest companies in the space, @DCGco and its CEO, @BarrySilbert. Time for a thread 👇" / X

• James Seyffart on X

Update for day 10 of the #Bitcoin ETF Cointucky derby. Volumes and flows are both slowing down a bit. Another slight negative day on flows. Total net flows stand at +$744 million. $IBIT likely crosses 2 billion in assets today

Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses

• Following the disclosure of the address, Bitwise also started receiving random donations and even inscriptions.
  • Eric Balchunas on X

Privacy

• Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider

Altcoins

• A series of articles give a high level overview of the patchwork of red flags that Tether is made of
  • A Tether insider, whose Thai alias is a 'principle' on Bitfinex's Bahamanian registration, is alleged to have largely funded the Brexit campaign
  • A December article that analyses Tether's on-chain activity and money printing via loans

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech covers a consensus failure in btcd with limited risk vs a recent Etherium consensus failure reveal

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