#241: Mining pools, Braidpool, resistance to attacks, adversarial thinking, and dev funding with Bob McElrath

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss:

- NY BitDevs

- Mining pools

- P2Pool

- Braidpool

- Making decentralized pools viable

- How they may fail

- Adversarial thinking

- Bob's Bitcoin journey

- much more

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Bitcoin Munich Meetup Video

Braidpool IRC

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Transcript

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0:00.0	So, freaks. It's your Uncle Marty here to introduce this episode with Bob McElrath.
0:06.3	But before we begin, I just want to give a heartfelt apology to all my Texan freaks who may have listened to RHR that was posted last night, March 25th, 2021.
0:21.3	Officially 1952, Moscow time.
0:25.7	I fudged up.
0:27.2	I fudged up.
0:28.0	I got my Texas geography wrong.
0:30.6	Terribly wrong.
0:31.5	Embarrassingly wrong.
0:32.7	That's on me.
0:34.5	In the moment, I had a brain fart.
0:36.6	It got Dallas and Houston mixed up with each other
0:38.5	I know that's blasphemous
0:41.3	I'm going to try hard to right my wrong
0:47.2	and to earn
0:49.0	the love for my Texan freaks back
0:52.9	I'm sorry
0:53.7	I woke up.
0:56.0	Feeling embarrassed, frankly. Truly embarrassed. I already can't pronounce words too good.
1:05.0	Now I'm just proving that my geography is not up to snuff.
1:15.1	I'm going to try to get better.
1:20.4	For you freaks, you deserve it.
1:21.2	You deserve better.
	...

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