We're live.

We're live from Bitcoin Plus Plus, Mnpool Edition in Austin, Texas, sitting down with Average

Gary and VNPRC.

It's great to be here.

I got it.

Always happy to be here.

Gentlemen, exciting week for this conference, Do we think Lisa created all the controversy

around Op Return to sell tickets to this? No comment. 100%. I heard she was Satoshi, actually.

The lead up to this has been very exciting, but I think as I've gotten here, I was here yesterday.

We have an event going on at Bitcoin Park, Austin, about energy and mining.

For me personally, the conversation here versus over there is vastly different.

There's a lot of very passionate people on both sides of this op return argument, but I don't think

we're going to solve that issue between the three of us today and this 15-minute conversation.

I'm more interested talking about what you guys are building with Hashpool.

I think let's describe the problem.

You guys, Forks, Stratton v2, what are we calling it, the implementation.

And you're creating a mining pool that incorporates e-cashments to aggregate an account, shares, and then do payouts.

Why don't we start by describing the problem that currently exists and how you guys are trying to solve it?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, yeah, one of the issues with centralized mining pools is they're not terribly private,

and they don't do small-scale payouts terribly well.

You can go to a couple of mining pools that have lightning

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