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…
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Security Budget
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S17 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash’s Comeback, the Orchard Bug & Forking the Company
Twenty months ago, Josh Swihart came on this show to talk about Zcash at its darkest hour: Binance was threatening delisting over…
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…
S17 E13: Charlie Spears on Blockspace Media, the Purity Spiral & the Case for Classical Maximalism
Editor’s note: this conversation was streamed live in mid-March 2026, a week after the US switched to daylight saving time (which…
S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet, the Four Layers of Privacy & Why Bitcoin's Layer 1 Might Die
Edge Wallet CEO Paul Puey on self-custody exchanges, Monero view keys, the four layers of crypto privacy, Lightning's limits, and…
S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues: Sharding, the Security Budget & a Live Lightning Test
Justin Bons debates Vlad Costea for 4.5 hours on Bitcoin's capacity, sharding, the security budget, on-chain governance & a live…
FUD for Thought
For all the certainties that it offers and all the FUD that it can destroy through its continued existence, Bitcoin is still…
