Unchained

Bitcoin’s BRC-20 Mania: Is It Sustainable? - Ep. 493

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Ordinal theory has unleashed a new wave of NFTs, memecoins and innovation on Bitcoin — but not without controversy. Bitcoin educator Dan Held and Bitcoin Frontier Fund Managing Partner Trevor Owens join the show to discuss the breakneck rise of BRC-20s and why they’re both bullish on what memecoins mean for the original blockchain.

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Show highlights:

  • what ordinal theory is and how it enabled Bitcoin “NFTs”
  • how the Ordinals Protocol differs from the ERC-721 token standard used by many Ethereum NFTs
  • how BRC-20s work by relying on some off-chain mechanisms
  • why Bitcoin is not a “dinosaur chain,” according to Dan
  • why Trevor says BRC-20 memecoins are superior to those on Ethereum
  • what the practical utilities of BRC-20s are, if any
  • why transaction fees in Bitcoin rose so much and why it’s healthy for the network 
  • whether innovation is coming back to Bitcoin
  • whether Satoshi Nakamoto would have approved of Bitcoin NFTs
  • the role of speculation in fueling bitcoin adoption 
  • the current and future state of layer 2s on Bitcoin
  • why Dan says BRC-20s “absolutely” solve the problem with Bitcoin’s security budget
  • why it’s hard to determine an “appropriate” amount for the security budget of Bitcoin
  • how the NFT market could be shaped after the rise of Ordinals and BRC-20s
  • what needs to be developed so that BRC-20s can flourish
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    Guests:
    • Dan Held, Bitcoin educator and marketing advisor at Trust Machines 
    • Trevor Owens, managing partner at Bitcoin Frontier Fund
      Previous coverage of Unchained on Ordinals:
      • Bitcoin Ordinal NFTs Are Hot and Getting Hotter. What's the Hype About? - NFT Crypto
      Links
      • Unchained: 
      • How to Create a Bitcoin Ordinal
      • Bitcoin Core Developers Mull Getting Rid of BRC-20 Transactions
      • Binance Briefly Halted Bitcoin Withdrawals Amid Network Congestion
      • Domo’s thread on BRC-20s 
      • Anita Posch’s comments.on the high fees
      • Nic Carter: There's No Such Thing as High Fees on Bitcoin
      • Nic Carter’s MIT presentation: MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019 - 10 years of Bitcoin: Evaluating its Performance as a Monetary System
      • Decrypt: Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Ordinals Are a ‘Catalyst’ for Adoption
      • [bitcoin-dev] [Mempool spam] Should we as developers reject non-standard Taproot transactions from full nodes?

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