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S9 E4
Paul Sztorc on the Philosophy of BIP 300 & Prediction Markets
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02:20 Why wasn’t BIP 300 merged into Bitcoin Core yet?
03:29 Peter Todd’s criticism of Drivechains
05:20 There’s so much going on, that it’s hard to keep up with all the developments
05:26 What drives Paul Sztorc’s chain? (prediction markets, Truth Coin, Bitcoin Hive Mind)
10:47 Why Paul Sztorc doesn’t like Liquid and doesn’t think it’s a sidechain
14:47 Drivechains improve on Blockstream’s implementation of sidechains
17:16 Ageing and death will get cured through prediction markets
20:30 Annoyances of our immortal future
21:30 The rampant stupidity in the Bitcoin space
22:39 Bitcoin’s anti-intellectual streak
24:15 There’s a lot of blind faith in the developers
25:15 Contrarian developers and the multiple Bitcoin dev teams
28:20 Sidechain philosophy and a crash course on the block size debate from an SPV perspective
35:49 The conspiracy against the public line from “The Wealth of Nations”
38:50 Sergio Demian Lerner
40:05 Offensive words are not necessarily wrong
43:10 There has to be a process through which error is defeated
44:03 The whole point of BIP 300
45:10 What’s the difference between extension blocks and Drivechains?
49:02 Luke Dashjr’s view that previous versions of Core are not really full nodes
50:24 Bitcoin’s accidental hard fork from 2013 (BIP 50)
54:24 The Newton and the Leibniz of Bitcoin
54:42 Plato’s ideal regime where philosophers rule
56:30 The Bitcoin School of Athens
59:34 Why do prediction markets matter?
1:00:56 Robert D. Putnam’s “Bowling Alone”
1:06:38 Who watches the watchers?
1:10:56 Rousseau’s idea of being forced to be free
1:12:50 Why adoption from above is bad, El Salvador & Karl Popper
1:20:45 Why the US is not as bad as it seems
1:24:24 Paul Sztorc’s experience with custodial Lightning wallets
1:27:46 What kind of mining are Drivechains going to have?
1:29:55 Blocktimes on sidechains
1:32:10 If you can’t change the block time on sidechains, then how does Liquid have 1-minute blocks?
1:34:20 RSK vs Drivechains
1:35:20 Is Bitcoin’s Omni layer a sidechain?
1:37:15 Describe Drivechains in newbie-friendly terms
1:38:25 Drivechain video and Zcash side chain for privacy
1:44:10 More privacy in Bitcoin?
1:50:28 Why was Satoshi not a cypherpunk?
1:57:39 Bitcoin vs bit gold in terms of inflation
1:59:55 What does maximalism actually mean?
2:03:45 Soft forks used to happen every couple of months
2:06:50 Decentralization is hard
2:09:00 Altcoins have become smarter and more original
2:12:10 Statechains, Softchains, Spacechains vs Drivechain
2:13:24 Can you build the sidechains features on top of the Lightning Network?
2:17:30 Mining profitability as the rewards get halved every 4 years
2:20:50 How can people follow Paul Sztorc on Twitter?
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