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THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd
43 minutes Posted May 7, 2024 at 11:00 am.
Start00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro00:10:45 Antpool block template use00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?00:17:18 Ocean Pool00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation00:20:19 Mining Testnet00:21:30 Resetting Testnet00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect00:24:16 OP_RETURN00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?00:28:23 MEV is dangerous00:30:35 RBF transactions00:31:20 MEV types00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project00:36:10 Suggestions for miners00:37:36 OP_CAT00:42:40 OP Code predictionPublished twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here.We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!Chapter Markers:00:00:00 Start00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro00:10:45 Antpool block template use00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?00:17:18 Ocean Pool00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation00:20:19 Mining Testnet00:21:30 Resetting Testnet00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect00:24:16 OP_RETURN00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?00:28:23 MEV is dangerous00:30:35 RBF transactions00:31:20 MEV types00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project00:36:10 Suggestions for miners00:37:36 OP_CAT00:42:40 OP Code predictionPublished twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.-Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.