BITCOIN SEASON 2: The Six Bitcoin Stakeholder Groups w/ Lyn Alden

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Lyn Alden’s recent report on Bitcoin Consensus provides a helpful rubric for defining Bitcoin stakeholder groups, their power dynamics, and the game theory of forks. You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Lyn Alden’s just dropped a report a little different than her normal Bitcoin & macro focus: Bitcoin Consensus. She takes us through defining the various stakeholder groups and how the game theory works as these groups’ influence wax and wane. Notes: • What is an Economic Node • What are the Six Bitcoin Stakeholder groups? • Protocol Developers power • Game Theory of stakeholder power dynamics Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 02:52 - Lynn’s Background & Bitcoin Research 05:16 - The Six Bitcoin Stakeholder Groups 08:09 - Economic Nodes 12:03 - Miners vs. Nodes 16:33 - Protocol Developers & Their Influence 20:19 - Podcasters 23:08 - “State of Mind” Concept 29:26 - Should More Stakeholders Be Involved in Consensus? 31:43 - Game Theory Behind Bitcoin Consensus Changes 34:31 - Weaknesses & Risks in the Process 38:52 - Future Soft Forks 39:15 - Lyn’s View 42:46 - Potential Future Optimizations - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:49.7	I'm not on like the view that, you know, we absolutely need changes or Bitcoin's going to fail by next year.
0:56.4	Like, there's very kind of aggressive changes.
0:58.4	And then there's people say that like they're basically not in favor of any change ever again.
1:03.1	I'm not on either end of the spectrum, but I tend to be a little bit more on the conservative side.
1:07.0	And basically rule number one, don't break anything.
1:09.4	Number two, don't break anything. Number three,
1:11.4	let's see how we can optimize things. One of the things I generally think about is, you know,
1:15.6	not introducing centralizing types of mev on the network as well as any sort of, like, I don't
1:23.1	really have the ability to judge a technical bug or not. So I have to rely on the majority of
1:27.0	others for that. But I look for rely on the majority of others for that.
1:27.6	But I look for, do the majority of technical people I follow agree that something is safe
1:31.7	in this absolute technical sense, but then also do they think it can cause or incentivize
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