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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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