Ep10: Behind The Great Rune Rush | Bitcoin Season 2 & The Mining Pod

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. 

Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees”

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:55 Mike intro

00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?

00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker

00:15:01 Building Runes tools

00:19:24 Airdropping

00:23:54 Miners learning Runes

00:26:38 Managing UTXOs

00:32:17 Including Runes in business model

00:34:26 Block templates

00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi

00:40:16 Fix the filters?

00:42:35 Mutable Trees

00:48:34 OP_CAT

00:52:07 Miners & soft forks

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