When you need to send a Bitcoin transaction, you need Bitcoin blockspace. But blockspace is scarce! CEO of Barefoot Mining, Bob Burnett and I chat about this, and what you can do about it. 

 Blockspace scarcity and explanation
 What you can do about it
  UTXO management
  Different types of miner
  Miner’s Trilemma
  Arguments against public company mining
  Mining NOT being a leverage play on Bitcoin
  Public vs private miners
  Gateway going public
  Core Scientific bankruptcy
  Mining decentralisation

Links:

  X: @boomer_btc
  Site: Barefoot Mining
  Old Man Yells: @OldManYells-btc
  Satoshi’s Heel article mentioned: SATOSHI’S HEEL: IS MINING INFRASTRUCTURE A VULNERABILITY THAT COULD TAKE DOWN BITCOIN?

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Bitcoin’s Blocksize Scarcity with Bob Burnett of Barefoot Mining (SLP525)

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A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead @ Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining  pool centralisation and what is driving it. 
Links:

 X: @moneyball 
 AJ Town’s ‘Slow and Steady’ post mentioned: 
 Earlier episode also mentioned: SLP433 : v2 P2P Transport Protocol for Bitcoin (BIP324) 

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Why Bitcoin Should Not Ossify - Steve Lee SLP569

Jeff Booth, author, entrepreneur and founding partner of Ego Death Capital rejoins me on the show to talk about his bitcoin advocacy at various levels: 

 Speaking to politicians about bitcoin
 The system you give energy to
 “Staying and fighting” in Canada vs supporting alternatives e.g. Madeira
 ‘Coincidental’ attack on Bitcoin? 

Links:

  X: @JeffBooth
  nostr: npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe
  Site: Ego Death Capital

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The System You Give Your Energy To - Jeff Booth SLP568

How do you think about investing as a bitcoiner? Preston Pysh of TIP rejoins me on the show to talk about a range of related ideas: 

 HODL vs invest in companies
 Microstrategy and other public companies
  VC and early stage investment
  Realistic investment hurdle rates
  Technical realities as bitcoin grows

Links:

  X: @PrestonPysh
  TIP: theinvestorspodcast.com
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Bitcoin and Investing with Preston Pysh SLP567

Dmitry Nedospasov is a PhD in Chip Security, also known for his hardware wallet exploits in 2018 with the wallet.fail talk. Dmitry joins me to talk about hardware security in the world of bitcoin and how it compares with hardware chip security in other domains. We discuss:

 The 2018 wallet.fail talk
 Bitcoin compared with other industries
  Realistic hardware wallet attack types
  The cost of attacking a hardware device
  Backups and Shamir’s Secret Sharing

Links:

  X: @nedos
  LinkedIn: Dmitry Nedospasov
  Site: Keylabs.io 
  Telegram: https://t.me/nedos
  wallet.fail talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OBIGslgGM
  Recoverylabs.io

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The cost to hack bitcoin hardware wallets with Dmitry Nedospasov SLP566


Steve Lee and Matt Corallo of Spiral rejoin me on the show to talk about a range of topics. Firstly we discuss the Great Consensus Clean Up which relates to fixing some long standing bugs in Bitcoin. Secondly we talk about MEV and why it’s the wrong term, instead we should be talking about MEVil and the implications for Bitcoin miner centralisation. Finally we address the rumours of Lightning Network being dead or not useful. 
Links: 

 X: @moneyball
 X: @TheBlueMatt 
  BlueMatt's Blog: Stop Calling It MEV
  BIP Proposal: The Great Consensus Cleanup
  Delving post on Great Consensus Clean up Revival
  Steve’s X thread on GCC: https://twitter.com/moneyball/status/1760839436617875485

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Bitcoin’s Blocksize Scarcity with Bob Burnett of Barefoot Mining (SLP525)

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