News Debunking the bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) model (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/why-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-is-not-useful) Embarassed to say that I didn't question it more Confirmation bias/group think is real Let's wade into Nic Carter's critique of bitcoin maximalism (https://medium.com/@nic__carter/setting-the-record-straight-b4e1b415e7d9) and Pete Rizzo's rebuttal (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/07/04/bitcoin-maximalism-is-dead-long-live-bitcoin-maximalism/) Revisiting Rizzo's early piece on bitcoin maximalism (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/03/28/bitcoin-after-2140-differing-views-on-the-future-of-the-future-of-money/) provides context Nic has serious bitcoin chops as evidenced by his website (https://niccarter.info/) Economics Arthur's breadown of the crypto lending crash (https://blog.bitmex.com/number-three/) Doesn't dwell on the alleged fraud at 3ac Economic research paper linking ETFs to lower wages (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4113449) Tokenomics CAR is creating their own altcoin (https://www.theblock.co/post/155665/central-african-republic-launches-national-cryptocurrency-called-sango-coin?utm_source=cashapp&utm_medium=rss) based on 'tokenized natural resources', just like Venezuela Report on CAR paints a bleak picture of the country (https://bdatacenter.fr/wp-content/uploads/Report-from-the-Bitcoin-Delegation-in-the-Central-African-Republic.pdf) Privacy Hacked exchange accounts are cheaper than expected (https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2021/) on the dark web Chinese total surveillance police state apparently doesn't protect citizen data (https://twitter.com/ZeyiYang/status/1543409345815355399) particularily well Similar leak detailed how China uses surveillance to commit genocide on the Uighers (https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/) The libertarian CATO Institute report on how inflation reduces financial privacy (https://www.cato.org/blog/how-inflation-erodes-financial-privacy) CATO's 1998 newsletter (https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/policy-report/1998/1/cpr-20n1.pdf) supporting Adam Back and the cypherpunks drive for encryption and privacy Rember the clipper chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip)? Energy IAE report on nuclear energy (https://www.iea.org/reports/nuclear-power-and-secure-energy-transitions/executive-summary) suggests that momentum for new nuclear power options is building, but sufficient nuclear to meaningfully impact climate change is still far away Bitcoin Education Lopp's excellent page of lightning resources (https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html) Elizabeth's Stark's lightning network primer (https://www.coincenter.org/education/key-concepts/lightning-network/) is a good start Blockstream has a schnorr half aggregation (https://blog.blockstream.com/half-aggregation-of-bip-340-signatures/) proposal You can view it in their cross input signature aggregation (CISA) (https://github.com/ElementsProject/cross-input-aggregation) repo Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @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) 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 & Apple) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) 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/)