Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin

The culling is happening -- Bitcoin assets like Runes & Ordinals are collapsing. Is this the end? Top Ordinals assets are down 30% - 60% over the past month and the total Runes market cap has fallen below $1 billion, again.An interesting phenomenon the past week has been the attention on Solana memecoins from the ordinals & Bitcoin maxi community. Unlikely as it may seem, "boomer" Bitcoiners are launching memecoins on Solana.-Follow our hosts on X: @cbspearsBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ross Ulbricht is free, full pardon! But how did we get here & what actually was the Silk Road? Colin & Charlie dive in - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this emergency Writer's Room episode, Charlie and Colin talk Trump's inauguration speech, in which he doesn't mention Bitcoin (quelle suprise!); the $10 billion dollar elephant (or should we say "shitcoin"?) in the room, TRUMP coin; and Trump's myriad Bitcoin policy promises. -Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodlingBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are now 7 states with Bitcoin reserve proposals! But they're not all the same, and it can be super confusing how each one works. Charlie & Colin explain & rank the Bitcoin reserves according to our (admittedly arbitrary) metrics!-Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodlingBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loans on Bitcoin are better than loans on Ethereum. More private, more secure, and better "attestations"Dive into the world of DLCs, Discreet Log Contracts - an underexplored but powerful mechanism that Shezhan Marieda uses to power Lava LoansFollow our guest on Twitter: @MarediaShezhanFollow our host: @cbspears---👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here.---Timestamps00:00 Introduction01:23 What is Lava?03:50 Bitcoin Smart Contracts05:19 Explaining DLCs10:49 Lava Loan Mechanics13:13 Counterparty Dynamics16:42 Challenges in Building Lava19:01 Yield and Interest25:58 DLC Innovations41:41 Future of Lava Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Runes are back down below $1 billion market cap and seem like they have lower to go. Is this the moment that Runes die?-Follow our hosts on X: @cbspearsBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!-Stream Bitcoin Season 2 everywhere🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1NQIkiC...🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...🎧 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/bitcoin-se...📺 Watch: • Bitcoin Season 2 FULL Episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2!For today's Writer's Room, Colin and Charlie celebrate Running Bitcoin Day by picking through the Bitcoin Talk archives for a selection of Hal Finney's most prescient takes. Finney is famous for being the first person (after Satoshi) to run Bitcoin -- a claim to fame that involves receiving the first non-mining related transaction from Bitcoin's creator -- as well as being one of the earliest contributors to Bitcoin Core. Hal was highly active in Bitcoin's salad days and a prolific poster on Bitcoin Talk, where he provided his thoughts on Bitcoin's earliest versions, pontificated over the cryptocurrency's future, and shared ideas with its earliest adopters. Many of Hal's ideas and prognostications were incredibly incisive and clairvoyant -- almost frighteningly so -- hence the title of today's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most large custodians secure Bitcoin using multisig or MPC, but that tech hasn't really changed or upgraded for almost a decade. Anchorwatch founder Rob Hamilton explains how Miniscript levels up the custodian game and allows for better risk mitigation for the largest holders of Bitcoin. He also dives into Bitcoin script, soft forks, and getting Ethereum holders to burn their assets onto Bitcoin.Follow our guest on Twitter: @Rob1HamFollow our host: @cbspears---👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here.Timestamps:02:11 Anchorwatch TLDR03:55 The tech behind Anchor Watch’s Trident Vault.04:28 Bitcoin native smart contracts.07:23 Bitcoin address encoding.13:16 Multi-sig of Multi-sig explained.14:09 Designing distributed risk solutions.30:00 How Clubhouse and Bitcoin discussions led to Anchor Watch.34:38 Vision for Bitcoin banking infrastructure.36:47 Bitcoin-denominated insurance policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rumors are swirling of custodians & services rehypothecating Bitcoin for the various staking protocols which have popped up over the past year. Are these founded? What's the risk? Also, why is everyone using the same custodians in the first place?-Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodlingBitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin.Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!-Stream Bitcoin Season 2 everywhere🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1NQIkiC...🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...🎧 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/bitcoin-se... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fourth Turning? That's the Uranus return cycle. Ray Dalio's 250 civilizational cycle? That's Pluto's return.Erin Redwing explains how Bitcoin astrology works & how "Girl pseudoscience" (astrology) is just as useful as "Boy pseudoscience" (economics).What is Bitcoin astrology & how it guides us through 2025 ✨Follow our guest on Twitter: @realizingerinFollow our host: @cbspears---Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix!Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure, decentralized, and share gas fees generated by the network with users.See the future of DeFi from botanixlabs.xyz---👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here.00:00 Intro03:34 From Planetary Science to Bitcoin 09:32 Bridging Bitcoin and Astrology13:23 Outer Planet Astrology 20:07 Predictions for 2025 40:04 Astrology as a Lens for Bitcoin and Economics 49:48 The Future of Bitcoin: 2025 and Beyond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices