Don't Settle for an ETF Bitcoin Dad Pod

Pre-Show


Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode



"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 company.



News


Blink plugin for BTC Payserver gives custodial lightning payments/receipts to anyone running a BTC Payserver

The COPA lawsuit, that will determine if CSW can call himself Satoshi, has discovered that CSW's 'newly found' Satoshi evidence is overwhelmingly fake and COPA has decilined a desperate last minute settlment offer from CSW

CSW Forgeries-COPAvWright.pdf



Economics


Chinese stocks suffer, likely due to reduced bank lending, another sign of tightening global monetary conditions

Fed Unexpectedly Kills Bank "Free Money" Bailout-Fund Arbitrage Scheme As It Ends BTFP Program | ZeroHedge



ETF: FTX Still Haunting BTC Users


FTX sold about $1 bln of Grayscale's bitcoin ETF since its approval

Vijay Boyapati 🦢 on X: "1/ There was a much more important fraud than SBF's embezzlement that took place in 2022. It was a fraud (allegedly) perpetrated by one of the oldest companies in the space, @DCGco and its CEO, @BarrySilbert. Time for a thread 👇" / X

James Seyffart on X




Update for day 10 of the #Bitcoin ETF Cointucky derby. Volumes and flows are both slowing down a bit. Another slight negative day on flows. Total net flows stand at +$744 million. $IBIT likely crosses 2 billion in assets today



Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses


Following the disclosure of the address, Bitwise also started receiving random donations and even inscriptions.


Eric Balchunas on X



Privacy


Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider


Altcoins


A series of articles give a high level overview of the patchwork of red flags that Tether is made of


A Tether insider, whose Thai alias is a 'principle' on Bitfinex's Bahamanian registration, is alleged to have largely funded the Brexit campaign
A December article that analyses Tether's on-chain activity and money printing via loans



Bitcoin Education


Bitcoin Optech covers a consensus failure in btcd with limited risk vs a recent Etherium consensus failure reveal


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