What up, freaks? It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this week's episode.

It's an immense pleasure of sitting now with somebody whose blog posts I've been reading for quite some time.

Somebody I've been conversing with on Twitter for quite some time.

Somebody who is a unique thinker in the Bitcoin space, he definitely ruffles some feathers

from time to time. He's ruffled my feathers before, including last week, which was the impetus

for me reaching out and hopping on the mic with him. This week's episode of Tales from the Crypt.

I sit down with Paul Stork, the creator of truthcoin.in. info, which is a wealth of knowledge, a bunch of hours long blog posts that I highly recommend you read.

I've been around for a while.

Paul and I dive into some of them in this conversation.

We talk about the fee market, the concept of drive change, which is his idea for a blind merge mine side chain that he believes would help a fee market develop.

That's a controversial topic because of the way miners could steal the coins, but we talk about all the scenarios and the disincentives for miners to do such a thing and the ways in which that can be prevented.

On top of that,

we talk about his hive mine project, which is the reason for the idea behind drive chains.

He started with hive mine to work backwards from there. We went out of, we talked for,

we didn't go at it. We had a conversation for two and a half hours, most of which Paul was speaking, which is fine by me.

Because, again, this is somebody I've been following for quite some time, and I'm very

fascinated by his ideas, particularly around the cost of proof of stake versus proof of work,

and why proof of stake is probably not that advantageous

in the long run or less costly than proof of work. I hope you guys enjoy this episode.

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