THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.
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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!
We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud
00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?
00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro
00:10:45 Antpool block template use
00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?
00:17:18 Ocean Pool
00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation
00:20:19 Mining Testnet
00:21:30 Resetting Testnet
00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect
00:24:16 OP_RETURN
00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?
00:28:23 MEV is dangerous
00:30:35 RBF transactions
00:31:20 MEV types
00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters
00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project
00:36:10 Suggestions for miners
00:37:36 OP_CAT
00:42:40 OP Code prediction
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| 0:49.7 | Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. |
| 0:50.9 | On today's show, we are joined by Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd. |
| 1:00.0 | We recorded this conversation down at Bitcoin Plus Plus last week in Austin, Texas, along with my co-host Charlie Spears. |
| 1:12.3 | We basically went through mining pool centralization. And should Bitcoin miners be concerned that a lot of the hash rate is now flowing to Ant Pool and Foundry, mostly AMP pool, by looking at a lot of these different disbursements to Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin mining holding addresses. So we went through that with Peter Todd. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you to him for joining the show. And thank you to Bitcoin Plus Plus for opening up the venue |
| 1:21.9 | for us to record. We have a little more content from Bitcoin Plus Plus coming up as well, |
| 1:27.1 | including some stuff that's already live on our Twitter account. |
| 1:30.7 | Okay, before we get into the show, we want to thank our sponsors, Clean Spark, America's Bitcoin Miner and Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining. |
| 1:37.4 | Thank you to both these sponsors for making the show possible, and you'll hear more from them in a little bit. |
| 1:42.9 | Okay, before we get into the show, we also want to push |
| 1:45.0 | the Blockspace podcast network where we have two other podcasts that are growing pretty quickly. |
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