Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
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01:09 Intro: Shai Wyborski, GHOSTDAG & the 8-hour record
03:41 Dropping out of high school at 14
04:44 Shai’s evolving opinions on Bitcoin
05:21 Spending 1,000 BTC on “creativity fuel”
06:31 Steam drops Bitcoin & the SegWit “tyranny”
10:47 Bitcoin as the decentralized Fort Knox of data
15:44 Bitcoin’s problems: throughput & Lightning’s limits
16:31 Kaspa’s multi-leader consensus explained
23:24 The failure of the fair launch model
37:42 Three individuals hold ~6% of KAS supply
41:44 Sponsor reads with live guitar jam
52:03 Working with Quai Network (disclosure)
53:06 Qubic’s attack on Monero with ~28% hashrate
1:08:27 What selfish mining actually is
1:12:17 Why proof of work beats proof of stake
1:21:24 Advice for Monero: abandon RandomX
1:24:47 PoW/PoS hybrids & Zano
1:36:46 GHOSTDAG: “the worst name in crypto”
1:49:08 DAGKnight: the perfect proof of work protocol?
1:59:22 What Shai would change about Kaspa’s launch
2:07:08 Mining 5M KAS & giving it all away
2:12:01 Should the GHOSTDAG authors step back?
2:15:05 The Kaspa governance drama & core blackout
2:28:40 The proof of work book & the Quai grant
2:45:11 Why FUD is the best educational opportunity
2:54:33 Kaspa storage requirements at Visa scale
3:00:55 Lightning Network critique: supernodes & trust
3:08:33 Israel, politics & crypto tribalism
3:23:18 Privacy, miner censorship & compliance
3:35:09 How Kaspa splits fees between parallel blocks
3:39:53 Guitar jam session
3:43:21 Does Shai believe in God?
3:47:26 Absurdism, utilitarianism & categorical imperative
4:02:32 Ayn Rand, objectivism & “existence exists”
4:12:15 Jordan Peterson & decentralized cults
4:25:29 Does Shai actually use Kaspa?
4:45:20 Tokens, vProgs & smart contracts on Kaspa
4:55:11 Stablecoins are just tokens
5:20:03 Do two pools control 51% of Kaspa’s hashrate?
5:25:49 Decentralized oracles vs Chainlink
5:48:45 Quantum computing explained: logical qubits
6:03:47 2,300 logical qubits to break Bitcoin’s ECDSA
6:05:37 Expert survey: quantum attacks by 2035?
6:08:01 Post-quantum signatures: size & hardware problems
6:14:12 Quantum loot: Satoshi’s coins & P2PK
6:29:53 Quantum canaries: Shai’s on-chain tripwire
6:45:25 Quantum mining attacks & Grover’s algorithm
7:02:29 Unclonable cryptography & quantum money
7:10:21 Kaspa’s security budget: fees without congestion
7:18:24 The chromatic emission: tuning a piano with Kaspa
7:32:48 The hardest part of earning a PhD
7:44:04 Beatles, Sgt. Pepper & the studio album
8:21:14 Breaking the 8-hour record
8:26:33 What Shai is working on now
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