Alex B, writer at Bitcoin Magazine and longtime Bitcoin Twitter user, joins The Gwart Show in this two part series on the heart and soul of Bitcoin maximalism, why it matters, if Bitcoin Season 2 is a sham and, of course, if Ethereum is a scam.

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Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:00:18 Introducing Alex Be 

00:05:41 Bitcoin scaling discussion

00:17:44 Necessary Bitcoin primitives

00:36:02 Protocols & Bitcoin economy

00:38:18 Incremental vs risky changes

00:48:30 Eric & Rudy's views

00:49:44 Bitcoiners' concerns

00:50:50 Defi's degeneracy

01:00:31 MEV on Bitcoin

01:02:03 Miners & economies of scale

01:09:55 Drive chains & merged mining

01:14:21 Meta protocols & centralization

01:18:55 Miners & meme coins

01:20:21 Ordinals' impact on Bitcoin

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