Blockspace

Covering powered land, AI infra, Wall Street ratings, local data center politics, operational updates, executive interviews. Join Colin and Charlie to understand what's happening in data centers!

Listen in PodNod RSS feed Show website

274 episodes
Updated Friday

Episodes274

Newest first

Jun 20, 2024 · 42 min
Ep18: Fighting Back Against Election Fraud with Bitcoin
Carlos from SimpleProof.com explains how the 2023 Guatemalan election used Bitcoin to timestamp results and prevent accusations of fraud. Governments can use Bitcoin’s immutable ledger to timestamp election results and prove that they haven’t been tampered with. Follow our guest on Twitter: @carlostoriello Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:00 - Overview of Guatemala's Voting System 04:50 - Proof of Work in Paper-based Voting 06:00 - Timestamping Election Results 07:08 - The 2019 Election Issues in Guatemala 08:20 - Open Timestamps Protocol 09:00 - Timestamping in 2023 Election 10:00 - How Timestamping Works 11:00 - Verifying Election Documents 16:00 - Comparison of Timestamp Data from Bitcoin 24:00 - Addressing Accusations of Election Fraud 27:00 - The Role of Bitcoin in Protecting Election Integrity 29:00 - Future Plans and Expanding the Use of Timestamping 33:00 - Challenges of Using Bitcoin for Public Registries Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 17, 2024 · 21 min
Ep17: ETH NFTS are dead, Suss BTC L2s & Saylor yeets BTC
Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech. → ETH NFTs down to 4,000 daily active users → Are Bitcoin L2s actually worthwhile? → Saylor buys $500 million BTC Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. 00:00:32: Welcome and introduction. 00:00:56: Overview of recent transaction activity on Bitcoin. 00:01:25: Discussion on Bitcoin transaction fees and mempool status. 00:02:18: Breakdown of transaction types on Bitcoin. 00:03:30: Analysis of inscription activity on Bitcoin. 00:04:24: Examination of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. 00:06:21: Review of Merlin Bitcoin L2. 00:07:19: Ordinals marketplace and volume analysis. 00:09:09: Overview of active addresses and market trends in ordinals. 00:10:08: Runes market analysis and trends. 00:11:22: Detailed look into runes minting activity. 00:12:36: Discussion on ETH NFTs and their decline. 00:14:08: Overview of Bank of Nakamoto and its stablecoin. 00:15:08: News on MicroStrategy's Bitcoin investment. 00:16:25: Analysis of various Bitcoin L2 projects. 00:18:00: Mention of upcoming interviews and content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 13, 2024 · 34 min
Ep16: The Biggest Memecoin on the Biggest Blockchain
Runemaster Leonidas says it's time for memecoins to come home to Bitcoin and explains why DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON should be the #1 dog coin everywhere. Follow our guest on Twitter: @LeonidasNFT Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Preview 00:00:34 - Intro 00:02:08 - Leonidas OG and DOG meme coin 00:03:14 - Bull case for DOG 00:05:43 - Largest airdrop in Bitcoin's history 00:06:44 - Decentralization and community-driven approach 00:09:41 - Exchange listings and challenges 00:10:54 - Competitive landscape of meme coins 00:12:16 - Structural limitations of the Runes protocol 00:14:00 - Future developments for liquidity and trading 00:17:10 - DOG's market performance and growth potential 00:17:56 - Cultural conversation on Bitcoin 00:20:08 - Legacy Bitcoin maximalism vs. new Bitcoin culture 00:24:24 - Speculative nature of Bitcoin and meme coins 00:26:20 - Bitcoin’s security and fee market 00:28:14 - Embracing speculation in Bitcoin 00:30:04 - Bitcoin as a future store of value 00:31:09 - Final reflections on DOG and Bitcoin’s future 00:32:14 - Potential of meme coins on Bitcoin 00:33:13 - Closing remarks and outro Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 11, 2024 · 22 min
Ep15: Fees Pump, OKX Burns Millions & are BRC20s back?
Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech. → Fees pumped on Bitcoin → OKX Burns millions -- is this just the beginning? → Ordinals Conferences coming → Are BRC20s Back Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 7, 2024 · 55 min
Ep14: How Maximalism Dies with Dylan LeClair
Maximalism has peaked. Bitcoin is no longer dominated by a Bitcoin maximalist dogma, but is quickly welcoming a diverse crowd of degens, gamblers and token peddlers. Is this good for Bitcoin is the question of course! To answer that question, we've brought on Dylan LeClair, Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Japanese corporation Metaplanet, joins Bitcoin Season 2 to discuss Bitcoin's changing culture scene and what “Bitcoin Accelerationism” actually means. Follow our guest on Twitter: @DylanLeClair Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 04:20 Recent travels 06:50 Michael Saylor comparisons 10:40 BitBlockBoom to BTC Asia 18:40 Narratives over time 26:30 Do shitcoins have positive externalities? 29:50 Tech(acc) to Bit(acc) 39:00 Malthusian vs Promethean 43:05 User influx may drive UI/UX innovation 45:30 Origination of Accelerationism 48:50 Who are the interesting voices in Bitcoin? 55:40 Accelerationists are Optimists Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 3, 2024 · 24 min
Ep13: Return of Runes, Bitcoin Startups, and Has Saylor Gone Soft on ETH?
Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech. → Runes market picking up → Ordinals Metrics are DOWN → Big Raises for Bitcoin startups → Saylor softens on ETH? Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here: https://blockspace.media/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 30, 2024 · 1 hr 43 min
Ep12: The Chaos Of Bitcoin Consensus
Bitcoin Developer PortlandHODL rips 4meggers on the regular, but how does all this stuff work under the hood? Portland explains how he built Slipstream for Marathon Digital, how he reorged Testnetv4 TWICE, and what exactly “Mempool Relay Policy” is. Charlie & Portland cover many Bitcoin topics in this 2 hour episode – Soft Forks, explaining Bitcoin with analogies, and how Bitcoin has been used over the past 15 years. Follow our guest on Twitter: @PortlandHODL Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:15 Views on Bitcoin 06:05 Slipstream is like a shipping service 10:55 Standardness & Relay Policy 17:40 Analogy for Standardness vs Consensus 18:40 Challenges to build Slipstream 21:00 Great Consensus Cleanup 25:00 Revenue from Slipstream 29:00 Why has nobody else built Slipstream? 33:20 Bitcoin developer landscape 39:40 The "M" Block 48:00 Wild Bitcoin File Storage idea 51:00 Reorging Testnet 58:01 Explain the Testnet v3 story 1:04:00 Thoughts on Bitcoin Core 1:09:49 BTCD exploit 1:11:40 Thoughts on other Bitcoin clients 1:16:15 Chaos is good for Bitcoin 1:17:10 Soft forks 1:23:20 Portland's view on Soft Forks 1:32:40 Bitcoin education 1:36:10 What are Bitcoiners lacking? Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 28, 2024 · 29 min
Ep11: Weekly Update (5/27)
Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech. → Runes market picking up → Ordinals continue to die → Bitcoin tech: eCash / Bitcoin Layers → Saylor on devs Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2024 · 56 min
Ep10: Behind The Great Rune Rush | Bitcoin Season 2 & The Mining Pod
Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees” Follow our guest on Twitter: @mikehamilton / @mutabletrees Follow our host: @cbspears 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:55 Mike intro 00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding? 00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker 00:15:01 Building Runes tools 00:19:24 Airdropping 00:23:54 Miners learning Runes 00:26:38 Managing UTXOs 00:32:17 Including Runes in business model 00:34:26 Block templates 00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi 00:40:16 Fix the filters? 00:42:35 Mutable Trees 00:48:34 OP_CAT 00:52:07 Miners & soft forks Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 1, 2024 · 43 min
Ep9: How to Build a Bitcoin Rollup: Citrea
Chainway & Citrea founder, Orkun Kılıç, explains how his team at Chainway is building the first ZK rollup on Bitcoin: Citrea. - Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news! https://blockspace.media/newsletter/ Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain. - 0:00 Intro 1:50 From Eth to Ordinals to Rollups 4:00 What is a Rollup? 7:30 What differentiates Citrea? 9:15 Using inscriptions to post data to Bitcoin 12:10 Optimizing beyond Ordinals 15:30 BitVM enabling a Bitcoin Bridge 16:30 How does Clementine work? 19:40 Does BitVM get more pragmatic? 21:20 Progress on Implementation 24:20 ZK proof verifier R&D 26:00 OP_CAT and soft forks 27:10 The Sequencer Problem 29:50 Competition from other rollups 32:20 Citrea to lead Bitcoin programmability 34:00 Just how scalable is a rollup? 35:05 Using Bitcoin as the token 37:40 Where does Citrea go from here? 40:10 Resurgence in Bitcoin development Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2024 · 58 min
Ep8: How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM
Rijndael & Tyler Whittle tell us the tale of how they wrote the CatVM storybook and how OP_CAT could fulfill the promises a lot of other Bitcoin ideas have failed to deliver. Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news! https://blockspace.media/newsletter/ Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 19, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
Ep7: Casey & Raph: Behind Runes & Ordinals
Casey Rodarmor & Raphjaph talk about how they built Runes, the future of Ordinals, and what they're working on next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2024 · 40 min
Ep6: Making Ordinals (tooling) Make Sense
We chat with Alec Taggart + Cole of Oyl Dynamics about how to build a suite of products that power the Ordinals (and Bitcoin) ecosystem. Oyl started with a wallet, then expanded further down the stack to build Sandshrew & Metashrew -- reimagining user experience, flow, and indexing. Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news! https://blockspace.media/newsletter/ Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 2, 2024 · 59 min
Ep2: MEV On Bitcoin? With Walt Smith and Julian Duran | 002
We break down Miner Extractable Value on Bitcoin, from current occurrences to forward looking concerns. Charlie is joined by Walt Smith of Cyber Fund and Julian Duran of Marathon Digital to discuss MEV on Bitcoin! Bitcoin Season 2 covers current conversations about new ideas on Bitcoin. Livestream on a weeknight, VOD on weekday. Bitcoin Season 2 covers current conversations about new ideas on Bitcoin. Contact: hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blockspace

Ep18: Fighting Back Against Election Fraud with Bitcoin

Ep17: ETH NFTS are dead, Suss BTC L2s & Saylor yeets BTC

Ep16: The Biggest Memecoin on the Biggest Blockchain

Ep15: Fees Pump, OKX Burns Millions & are BRC20s back?

Ep14: How Maximalism Dies with Dylan LeClair

Ep13: Return of Runes, Bitcoin Startups, and Has Saylor Gone Soft on ETH?

Ep12: The Chaos Of Bitcoin Consensus

Ep11: Weekly Update (5/27)

Ep10: Behind The Great Rune Rush | Bitcoin Season 2 & The Mining Pod

Ep9: How to Build a Bitcoin Rollup: Citrea

Ep8: How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM

Ep7: Casey & Raph: Behind Runes & Ordinals

Ep6: Making Ordinals (tooling) Make Sense

Ep2: MEV On Bitcoin? With Walt Smith and Julian Duran | 002