THE MINING POD: Its Name Was OP_CAT
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Mining Pod descends on Bitcoin++ in Austin, Texas to discuss the future of Bitcoin development, including an infamous online pet.
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In this week’s Mining Pod, Charlie, Matt, Will, and special guest Walt Smith of Cyber Fund discuss the talks from the Bitcoin developer conference Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas, with a special focus on new soft forks for Bitcoin that could bring more programmability on-chain.
Chapter |
00:00 Start
01:37 What is Bitcoin ++?
05:09 Specter of MEV on Bitcoin
11:49 Defining MEV
17:23 Slipstream & Data Blobs
21:08 Protocol Ossification
23:56 OP_CAT
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| 0:49.7 | Okay, welcome back to the mining pod. We are in Austin, Texas at Bitcoin Plus Plus. |
| 0:54.8 | We have the usual news roundup crew, Charlie Spears and Matt Kimmel. |
| 0:58.1 | And one little extra guest, Walter Smith of Cyberfund. Welcome to the show, gents. |
| 1:03.4 | You're just going to let him little you like that? |
| 1:06.3 | Ah, it's all right. The people know. The people know. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, you guest wrote a great piece |
| 1:12.2 | called The Spectre of MEV for |
| 1:13.9 | Blockspace Media newsletter. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, that was... |
| 1:16.9 | We can't jump ahead yet. |
| 1:17.8 | Oh, Charlie, bad for him. |
| 1:19.7 | Shoot. |
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