fedi

Fedi is building community-empowering tech powered by Fedimint. An open-source protocol to custody and transact Bitcoin within a community (federation). This is a wide-ranging conversation with Kody Low who is the head of developer & product support at Fedi. We touch on his experience as a new Bitcoin developer and best places to learn today, the differences between Fedi and Fedimint, and a deep dive into the design space of using federations to expand the utility of Bitcoin. You will learn a few new things in this episode. I promise you that. Follow Kody on Twitter: @kodylow Learn more about Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/ Learn more about FediMint: https://fedimint.org/

Intro Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief (https://geyser.fund/project/earthquakereliefturkey) SBF's mysterious bail bond guarantors (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html) were revealed to be ... family friends? No independant examiner (https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/ftx-bankruptcy-judge-rejects-independent-examiner-appointment-motion-fearing-100-million-loss-202302151650) for the FTX fraud means no action against the many people who supported SBF and looted customer funds But don't worry, SBF's VPN use (https://meaww.com/who-are-larry-kramer-and-andreas-paepcke-sam-bankman-frieds-bail-backers-are-stanford-academics) is only for watching football, not looting FTX crypto wallets (https://www.ibtimes.com/ftx-hacker-ends-moving-41m-worth-stolen-funds-okx-3641662) Lee Rainier, a crypto law professor and former Federal Reserve employee, testifies before the U.S. Senate (https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Reiners%20Testimony%202-14-23.pdf) banking comittee on why bitcoin should be banned News Fedi, a company based around Fedimint technology, Hackathon develops modules (https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedimint-hackaton-winners) to create US dollar stable value in a fedimint Creditors of Mt Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, have an early payout option (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/16/mt-goxs-2-largest-creditors-pick-payout-option-that-wont-force-bitcoin-selloff-sources/) It was the biggest exchange failure (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mt-gox-hack/) in bitcoin history and many thought it would kill bitcoin Pack it up, party's over, the Wall Street Journal, a pro-business newspaper, reveals that six developers control bitcoin (https://archive.ph/2023.02.16-195618/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/bitcoin-core-maintainers-crypto-7b93804) /s Article shows a lack of basic knowledge of how open source projects operate and bitcoin consensus works Arthur may have called the bull market (https://blog.bitmex.com/be-present/) based on liquidity conditions Economics Lyn Alden's February newsletter (https://www.lynalden.com/february-2023-newsletter/) covers She also has a marvelous article on the US Federal Reserve's recent shift to operating at a loss (https://www.lynalden.com/broke-federal-reserve/) Arthur has a view on trading based on financial system (https://blog.bitmex.com/be-present/) liquidity Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #238 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/15/) links to a bitcoin documentation search engine (https://bitcoinsearch.xyz/?q=block%20headers&size=n_50_n) 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: Bob B Oak: Home (https://oak-node.net/doc/trunk/README.md) Oak Node gives you Scheduled Payments. Now you can send sats to a Lightning Address on a schedule. Support your favorite content creators every week, every day, or even every block! Up to you. From: Hal was right P2P exchange guide (https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/) 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! 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) Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple)+ Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

Fedimint provides an easy way for people to create Chaumian mints using bitcoin – basically community banks which offer speed, scalability & privacy at the expense of trusting the bankers. In this episode, Eric Sirion and Obi Nwosu explain how it works.