Bitcoin BLAKE2b: The Fork That Fired the Miners
Luke Dashjr's BIP-110 soft fork stalled after eight blocks, then returned as a BLAKE2b hard fork whose proof of work was picked…
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Luke Dash Jr
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S17 E42: Bob Summerwill on Ethereum Classic & Bitcoin’s Fork Season
I first met Bob Summerwill in person at the Proof of Work Summit in September 2023: the event where Bitcoiners, Litecoiners…
S17 E38: Keagan McClelland on Lightning Metrics, Covenants, Consensus Politics & Verifying Bitcoin
There is a certain genre of Bitcoin Twitter argument that never quite resolves into a conversation. People trade metrics, memes…
S17 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor’s Endgame
Vinny Lingham found Bitcoin in 2012 for the most unglamorous reason imaginable: chargebacks. His gift card company Gyft was…
S17 E26: Calin Culianu, Steve Thurmond & The Phenomenal Big Blockers on Nine Years of Bitcoin Cash
Almost nine years after the big split of the Bitcoin community, it was time. Time to sit down with the people who…
S17 E17: Lukas Hozda on Building Bitcoin in Rust & Why Mempool Filters Can’t Work
Recorded in a soundproofed room at Braiins headquarters in Prague that once doubled as an ASIC oven (more on that later), this…
S15 E44: Chris DeRose on Bitcoin Uncensored, Simulacra & Life After Bitcoin
Bitcoin Uncensored reunion: Chris DeRose, Wayne Vaughan, Jay Berg & Paul Sztorc on simulacra, Bitcoin cults, stablecoins as bonds…
