BREAKDOWN: After the Merge, How Do We Think About Change Within Bitcoin?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Does Bitcoin need to change at all?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
For this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads and discusses Chris Castiglione’s “Bitcoin Should Change … Slowly,” as well as a Twitter thread by Dan McArdle.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 18th, and that means it's time for Long |
| 0:27.2 | Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go |
| 0:31.5 | subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the |
| 0:35.3 | conversation, come join us on the breakers discord. |
| 0:38.4 | You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:42.3 | Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with |
| 0:46.7 | FTX. Now, it is only fitting for Ethereum Merge Week that we do a merge-themed Long |
| 0:53.4 | Read Sunday. Although what we're actually |
| 0:55.7 | going to look at is the contemplation it is prompted around Bitcoin and its relationship both |
| 1:00.9 | to Ethereum as well as to itself. So first we're going to read a piece called Bitcoin |
| 1:05.2 | should change slowly, reconsidering the first cryptocurrency's slow and steady approach to |
| 1:10.1 | development as Ethereum's |
| 1:11.3 | merge nears. The piece is by Chris Castiglione, who works on a secure chat platform for Web3 |
| 1:16.9 | called console.xyz, is a general manager at Trust Machines, which is building on Bitcoin, |
| 1:21.9 | and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School. Chris writes, Bitcoin is slow |
| 1:27.0 | to change. Transaction speeds are too slow for a |
| 1:29.6 | global payment system. The community is reluctant to embrace novelty, and the rate of new innovation |
| 1:34.5 | in comparison to nearly every other blockchain is tortoise-like. Fortunately for Bitcoin, I believe |
| 1:39.2 | its slow and steady pace will ultimately be its superpower. This year, Ethereum will undergo a radical upgrade known as the |
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