Pre-ShowCSW is bombing his cross-examination (https://blog.bitmex.com/copa-vs-csw-day-2-thoughts/) in the COPA case, trying to explain the miraculous circumstances that created the hundreds of aNewsFTX customers are being paid back in full (

Can I get your...GPS cords?

Feb 4th, 2024 1h 1m

Pre-ShowHarvard report on housing in the USA (https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/files/Harvard_JCHS_Americas_Rental_Housing_2024.pdf) makes the obvious conclusion that homelessness is all about prices, wages are stagnant

Don't Settle for an ETF

Jan 28th, 2024 55m 30s

Pre-ShowSwan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/swan-mining-announced/)"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 co

The Cat is Loose

Jan 13th, 2024 1h 1m

Halving the next hype cycle101 days and 14512 blocks leftNewsETF?SEC’s bitcoin ETF tweet fiasco may end in fraud charges, lawyers say - Blockworks (https://blockworks.co/news/sec-x-hack-legal-action)Day 1 Trade data:Grayscale: $2.3 billio

The Theme is Incentives

Jan 6th, 2024 1h 1m

Pre-ShowA personal account of living in Turkiye under soaring inflation (https://stacker.news/items/376570), many trends described here are also happening in the US and EuropeNewsThe financial incentives of bitcoin are no joke, as Blackrock

There Never Was a Second Best

Dec 30th, 2023 41m 1s

NewsInstitutional adoption is changing bitcoin's role in finance, is that good or bad?The Fragility of Bitcoin: Potential Challenges and Resilience (https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/the-fragility-of-bitcoin-potential)Despite these chal

Liquid Courage

Dec 23rd, 2023 1h 2m

Pre-ShowThe bitcointalk.org original hodl post is 9 years old (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0) and expresses many of the sentiments of the Game Stop Apes of January 2021NewsStacker news, a reddit clone that upvotes via ligh

Mainstream or Decentralized

Dec 16th, 2023 1h 7m

Pre-ShowAt least one person is living on bitcoin (https://blog.bitmex.com/getting-paid-in-btc-in-sin/) in Singapore, all you need is a master's in finance and higher income than expensesNewsWarren Expands Coalition of Banking Committee Supp

When in Doubt, Break Glass

Dec 10th, 2023 1h 20m

Pre-ShowChainalysis' global crypto adoption survey demonstrates that grass roots adoption surges in hostile monetary environments (https://archive.ph/wIkRQ)Financial Distress Leads To Surge In Early 401(k) Withdrawals, Bank Report Shows (http

Wet Hot Financial Surveillance

Dec 1st, 2023 45m 18s

Pre-ShowBad entropy will get your bitcoins stolen (https://nitter.net/mononautical/status/1728946778798793126?ref=nobsbitcoin.com)NewsThis cycle's bitcoin environmental FUD is probably going to be water usage (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1

Interview: Peter Todd Critiquing Drivechain

Nov 28th, 2023 25m 13s

Interview: Peter Todd Critiquing DrivechainsPeter's technical critique (https://petertodd.org/2023/drivechains) documentPeter's blog (https://petertodd.org)OpenTimestamps website (https://opentimestamps.org/)Previous Interviews with Paul St

Strangling the Golden Duck

Nov 25th, 2023 57m 24s

Pre-ShowMempool Observer seems to have caught bitcoin mining pool F2pool not mining OFAC sanctioned bitcoin addresses (https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/)The SEC thinks polygon and solana are securities (https://

Interview: Waxwing

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h

Waxwing's blog (https://reyify.com/blog)JoinMarket (https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver), WaxWing's coinjoin software, link to the github repoPrevious interview on coinjoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/joinmar

Maliable Guildlines

Nov 18th, 2023 55m 7s

Pre-ShowETF hype fading?End of an 8 day approval windowBloomberg's James Seyffart says still a 90% chance approval by Jan 10th 2024.James Seyffart on X (https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1724469793422508533)"Okay, we're nearing in on deadl

The End Game is Here

Nov 12th, 2023 1h 12m

Pre-ShowThe PlanB indicator is flashing bull market (https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1722947159308259733?t=5tu5Eb_ilj387fA9ljWFAA&s=09) /sNewsAdopting BitcoinConference stats:1100 attendees350 Salvadoran Over 150 sessionsEl Sa

Real Time Kollisions

Nov 5th, 2023 49m 22s

Pre-ShowFederal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fed-threatens-to-sue-bitcoin-magazine/)The rollout of FedNow, a realtime payments system, has been predictably slow (https://archi

The Trust is Bust

Oct 28th, 2023 39m 41s

Pre-ShowMain stream financial blogger Rich Dad Poor Dad views bitcoin as a hedge against Central Bank Risk (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/rich-dad-poor-dad-kiyosaki-next-stop-for-bitcoin-price-130000)Actually Kiyosaki is quite shady (ht

Europe's on the Move

Oct 21st, 2023 1h 7m

Pre-ShowEurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2023/html/ecb.pr231018~111a014ae7.en.html)ECB's Digital Euro CBDC Project Moves to 'Preparation' Phase (https://www.coindesk.com/policy

Trial Gate

Oct 14th, 2023 41m 14s

Pre-ShowA busy week for Bitcoin HardwareTrezor's bitcoin only firmware (https://trezor.io/trezor-safe-3-bitcoin-only) anniversery hardware signing device is very orangeSwan Partners with Blockstream to Launch Swan Vault (https://www.nobsbitc

Macro Eruptions

Oct 8th, 2023 57m 2s

Pre-ShowVolcano Energy Bitcoin Mining Pool Goes Live - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/volcano-energy-bitcoin-mining-pool-goes-live)El Salv launched the volcano powered bitco

Financial Repression is Literally Here

Sep 29th, 2023 1h 2m

Pre-ShowThree Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/29/three-arrows-capital-co-founder-zhu-arrested-in-singapore-airport-sentenced-four-months-

Trustee Me

Sep 24th, 2023 1h 20m

Pre-ShowOptimism foundation is dumping tokens (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/21/optimism-foundation-sells-157m-op-tokens-citing-treasury-management), they are the technological provider of Coinbase's 'base' protocolNewsAmboss.spa

Fortress Not Trustworthy

Sep 16th, 2023 57m 1s

Pre-ShowA very reasonable discussion on HN around the WTF Happened in 1971 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482646) website, the world is complicated, there are many ways to interpret history and the present, none are particularly satis

Accounting for Privacy

Sep 9th, 2023 50m 2s

Pre-ShowRumor? Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca to leave the company after "Recover feature" scandal 👀 (https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1699741300109832623)Alex Mashinsky's assets frozen by US court as part of criminal case (https: