Intro Silk Road Crypto Sale: US Govt Sells 9,800 BTC, Aims to Offload 41,500 More (https://u.today/silk-road-crypto-sale-us-govt-sells-9800-btc-aims-to-offload-41500-more) News CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/us-regulator-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-and-boss-changpeng-zhao), the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to U.S. customers while pretending to bar them from the platform China may also be going after (https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/us-and-china-try-to-crush-binance-sbfs-40m-bribe-claim-asia-express/) Binance due to the bans on cryptocurrency trading on the mainland Some more schadenfreude (https://amycastor.com/2023/03/30/crypto-collapse-new-sam-bankman-fried-charge-binance-fallout-sec-sues-exchange-over-crypto-securities-how-signature-died/) from crypto skeptic Amy Castor Economics and Banking A history of the US-Saudia debt recycling deal (https://archive.is/vAsyB) from Bloomberg, a financial news company Saudi Arabia reduces 36.7% of its holdings of US treasury securities in two years (https://www.zawya.com/en/wealth/wealth-management/saudi-arabia-reduces-367-of-its-holdings-of-us-treasury-securities-in-two-years-utu3efvn) Learn more by reading a history of modern energy politics and money (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disorder-9780198864981?cc=us&lang=en&) by Helen Thompson Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #244 covers multiparty channels (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/29/) and channel factories (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/channel-factories/) Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/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), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Boosts Petar sent in the largest boost in the show's history at 222,222 sats! defnotskynet sugests looking at lifecycle emissions studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources) to understand the methodology of grading energy sources by emission Meremortals wanted to learn more about bitcoin energy usage calculations, so check out the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons) Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com 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) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts 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/)