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Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat of snagging 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 along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here.Chapters:00:00:00 Start00:02:55 Mike intro00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker00:15:01 Building Runes tools00:19:24 Airdropping00:23:54 Miners learning Runes00:26:38 Managing UTXOs00:32:17 Including Runes in business model00:34:26 Block templates00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi00:40:16 Fix the filters?00:42:35 Mutable Trees00:48:34 OP_CAT00:52:07 Miners & soft forksPublished 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.
