Pre-Show Main 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 (https://slate.com/business/2016/02/robert-kiyosaki-s-ongoing-legal-dispute-says-everything-about-the-shadiness-of-personal-finance-gurus.html) despite his financial success, typical bitcoin tout amiright? Economics The US Social Security Trust Fund is still drawing down (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/10/23/social-security-update-trust-fund-income-outgo-and-deficit-in-fiscal-2023/) which may affect US Treasury Market liquidity as the world enters a decade of Fiscal Dominance (https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2023/06/02/fiscal-dominance-and-the-return-of-zero-interest-bank-reserve-requirements) The latest FED working paper (https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/review/2023/10/02/fiscal-dominance-and-the-return-of-zero-interest-bank-reserve-requirements.pdf) on fiscal dominance identifies the banking sector as the future warehouse of large US debt issuances Privacy FinCen is coming for coinjoin on bitcoin (https://protos.com/bitcoins-coinjoin-services-threatened-by-new-fincen-rules/) a year after sanctioning privacy on Etherium via the Tornado Cash blacklist Request for comment coincides with Elizabeth Warren's latest hyperbolic attack on crypto (https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptocurrency-feeds-hamass-terrorism-e0db54f5) and misrepresentation of the role of digital currency in funding Hamas Good analysis of the story from shinobi (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/fincen-proposes-insane-special-measures) Coin Center, a crypto advocacy group, filed a motion to halt (PDF WARNING) (https://www.coincenter.org/app/uploads/2023/10/As-Filed-Coin-Center-Amicus-Brief.pdf) the US tax authority's John Doe Summons (https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/crypto-trader-can-sue-irs-over-john-doe-summons-coinbase-records-1st-circ-2022-08-19/) against crypto exchanges that suck up personal financial information Altcoins Is there an alternative to 'layered scaling' when it come to increasing blockchain throughput? Galaxy would like you to think so (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/making-sense-of-blockchain-modularity/). Bitcoin Education Optech #274 focuses on the lightning HTLC recycling attack (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/10/25/) and mitigations that can't fully address the protocol level vulnerability It brings to mind the recent HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack, the vulnerability is at the protocol level (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/10/http2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487), there's no 'fix', only mitigation 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 From: Withers Hey guys, I've really been enjoying the show. I guess Jupiter Broadcasting wasn't sending me down enough rabbit holes, so now I have bitcoin! Do either of you use metal plates to save your seed phrases? Any suggestions? Check out https://jlopp.github.io/metal-bitcoin-storage-reviews/ From: Hal was right Dhruv Bansal has a three part article on what bitcoin would look like if expanded to the entire solar system. Highly recommended! https://unchained.com/blog/law-of-hash-horizons/ 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/)