NVK of Coinkite rejoins me to talk about attitudes on Bitcoin development and consensus changes. We discuss how “ossification” is commonly thrown around as a term, but maybe there is a better term. “Extreme conservatism”? We talk:
- What is ossification?
- What about bug fixes?
- What changes would NVK be interested in?
- How many people will use Bitcoin?
- What the market is focused on
- It’s not your chain
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Timestamps:
(00:00) – Intro
(00:52) – Ossification and gardening
(06:06) – Where are the ossifiers?
(09:03) – Fixing bugs on the Bitcoin protocol
(17:13) – Assessing BIPs & change proposals
(23:53) – NVK on Bitcoin as SOV and/or MOE
(31:47) – Sponsors
(34:58) – “USD is the best shitcoin”
(37:32) – The fate of other blockchains
(45:41) – Putting Bitcoin on a pedestal?
(49:32) – Gresham’s Law in context of Bitcoin
(51:34) – Future path for Bitcoin
(57:27) – Outro
Sponsors:
- Swan.com (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
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