Episode 91: Stock to Farce

Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-Show

• The FTX Foundation planned to buy the island of Naru to build a supervillain's lair

• A bitmex blog post discusses Gary Gensler's history as CFTC comissioner during alleged gold price manipulation that turned out to be justified

  News

• Crosseus, a bitcoin institutional investor, reminds us that the stock to flow model still exists and might be direcitonally correct, of course its mathematically ridiculous

• Regulatory arbitrage for crypto businesses is no walk in the park after Kuwait bans bitcoin

Economics

• Is the US Government relying less on foreign financing of deficit spending or is the rest of the world not able to consume the current massive issueances of treasuries?

Altcoins

• The XRP legal ruling is a bit more complicated than we thought, a great conversation from Coin Center

Bitcoin Education

• A Bitcoin Talk describes how miners find valid blocks really well
• Bitcoin Optech #260 features the last waiting for confirmation segment from Gloria Zhao and Merch

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