Risks of Mining Pool Centralization | Jimmy Song, Center of Hash E008
Jimmy Song, author of Programming Bitcoin, discusses the importance of more miners participating directly in the peer-to-peer network and the risks of bitcoin mining pool centralization, including how centralization in mining pools could enable censorship of bitcoin transactions and how it might also enable changes to the network’s rules that would otherwise be far more difficult, ranging from scenarios that cover mempool policy (e.g. OP Return filter) as well as consensus changes, in both softfork and hardfork scenarios.
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#661: We Will Not Live Like This with Tom Luongo
Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss America's potential turning point following recent political violence, the strategy behind Trump's methodical approach to draining the swamp, and why the 30-year mortgage market could be the key to rebuilding middle-class wealth.
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#660: Building Amid Chaos with Will Cole
Marty sits down with Will to discuss the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and its potential political ramifications, Bitcoin's evolving mainstream acceptance, Zaprite's new ticketing platform, and the integration of AI tools in software development.
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#659: Why America Gets China Wrong with Peter Alexander
Marty sits down with Peter Alexander, an American consultant who has lived in China for 30 years, to discuss why the US fundamentally misunderstands Chinese culture and strategy, how America's supply chain dependency has eliminated its negotiating leverage, and what both countries need to do to avoid a destructive economic confrontation.
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Bitcoin Mining in ERCOT | Brad Cuddy, Center of Hash E007
Brad Cuddy, Director–Energy Operations at Cholla, Inc., discusses the benefits that bitcoin mining is actively providing to the ERCOT grid, why deregulation and real-time pricing in ERCOT is creating a unique opportunity for bitcoin mining to innovate in Texas, how bitcoin miners compare to AI datacenters from a load perspective, and why bitcoin load and batteries are complementary tools to help balance the grid.
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