Show Notes
Alexi, the developer of Tornado Cash, might be getting out on bail (https://www.theblock.co/post/227329/alexey-pertsev-tornado-cash-developer-free-pending-trial) after 6 months in jail waiting a trial
News
Economics and Banking
The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Commitee (TBAC (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financing-the-government/quarterly-refunding/treasury-borrowing-advisory-committee-tbac)), proposed a Treasury buyback program (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1239) in February, another sign that Yield Curve Control is the solution to the U.S. Governments debt spiral
The 1 yr US Treasury bill continues to sharply invert (https://wolfstreet.com/2023/04/20/short-end-of-the-treasury-market-goes-totally-nuts-doubts-creep-in-over-debt-ceiling/), expressing a negative economic outlook
Energy
Germany shut down its remaining nuclear plants (https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/A-guide-The-end-of-Germany%E2%80%99s-nuclear-power) after a multi-decade political shift against nuclear energy
Eon, a German energy producer, increased electricity prices by 45 percent (https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/eon-erhoeht-strompreise/amp) in related news english version (https://www-tichyseinblick-de.translate.goog/daili-es-sentials/eon-erhoeht-strompreise/amp?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp)
Privacy
Trezor, a hardware wallet, adds coinjoin integration for user privacy, but its through Wassabi Wallets ZKSnacks' coordiator that does chain analysis on users (https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/sethforprivacy/status/1648727943470776320) before letting them coinjoin
MullvadVPN, a reputable privacy focused VPN provider, was served a warrant (https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/) in Sweden, their home juristiction, no customer data was handed over since Mullvad collects no such data
jam (https://github.com/joinmarket-webui/jam) is a webui on top of joinmarket, a maker-taker based coinjoin protocol that avoids the centralized coordinator issues of Samurai and Wasabi
Bitcoin Education
Let's talk bitcoin's security model (https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-security-modeling/) to see if critique's of bitcoin security (https://twitter.com/mira_hurley/status/1648624743589740545) are useful or the new FUD
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@smartgrowth
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Apr 26 2023
speaking of high priced learning. i misplaced my ledger seed phrase & it wouldn't sync w/my PC or phone. Ledger support is meh & slow. Fortunately after a super stressed night & poor sleep i thought enough to revert my pc version of ledger live, which allowed me to synve and get thay life savings off to a software wallet until i could get a new ledger and seed phrase setup. Lesson: keep multiple seed phrase copies in various secure locations.
@trugrytz
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Loved this episode!
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“secured by a wall of energy protected by cyber hornets”🤣
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could the 'brics', Argentina, and others be proactive signs of US default? do you know a good pod to keep up on the shifting world finance, primarily not U.S. focused?
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