NVK of Coinkite rejoins me to talk about attitudes on Bitcoin development and consensus changes. We discuss how “ossification” is commonly thrown around as a term, but maybe there is a better term. “Extreme conservatism”? We talk:

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro 

(00:52) - Ossification and gardening 

(06:06) - Where are the ossifiers? 

(09:03) - Fixing bugs on the Bitcoin protocol 

(17:13) - Assessing BIPs & change proposals

(23:53) - NVK on Bitcoin as SOV and/or MOE

(31:47) - Sponsors

(34:58) - “USD is the best shitcoin”

(37:32) - The fate of other blockchains

(45:41) - Putting Bitcoin on a pedestal?

(49:32) - Gresham’s Law in context of Bitcoin

(51:34) - Future path for Bitcoin

(57:27) - Outro

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