Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin

Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech.→ Fees pumped on Bitcoin→ OKX Burns millions -- is this just the beginning?→ Ordinals Conferences coming→ Are BRC20s BackFollow 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maximalism has peaked. Bitcoin is no longer dominated by a Bitcoin maximalist dogma, but is quickly welcoming a diverse crowd of degens, gamblers and token peddlers. Is this good for Bitcoin is the question of course!To answer that question, we've brought on Dylan LeClair, Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Japanese corporation Metaplanet, joins Bitcoin Season 2 to discuss Bitcoin's changing culture scene and what “Bitcoin Accelerationism” actually means.Follow our guest on Twitter: @DylanLeClairFollow 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.Chapters:00:00 Intro04:20 Recent travels06:50 Michael Saylor comparisons10:40 BitBlockBoom to BTC Asia18:40 Narratives over time26:30 Do shitcoins have positive externalities?29:50 Tech(acc) to Bit(acc)39:00 Malthusian vs Promethean43:05 User influx may drive UI/UX innovation45:30 Origination of Accelerationism48:50 Who are the interesting voices in Bitcoin?55:40 Accelerationists are OptimistsQuestions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech.→ Runes market picking up→ Ordinals Metrics are DOWN→ Big Raises for Bitcoin startups→ Saylor softens on ETH?Follow 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: https://blockspace.media/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitcoin Developer PortlandHODL rips 4meggers on the regular, but how does all this stuff work under the hood? Portland explains how he built Slipstream for Marathon Digital, how he reorged Testnetv4 TWICE, and what exactly “Mempool Relay Policy” is.Charlie & Portland cover many Bitcoin topics in this 2 hour episode – Soft Forks, explaining Bitcoin with analogies, and how Bitcoin has been used over the past 15 years.Follow our guest on Twitter: @PortlandHODLFollow 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.Chapters:00:00 Intro02:15 Views on Bitcoin06:05 Slipstream is like a shipping service10:55 Standardness & Relay Policy17:40 Analogy for Standardness vs Consensus18:40 Challenges to build Slipstream21:00 Great Consensus Cleanup25:00 Revenue from Slipstream29:00 Why has nobody else built Slipstream?33:20 Bitcoin developer landscape39:40 The "M" Block48:00 Wild Bitcoin File Storage idea51:00 Reorging Testnet58:01 Explain the Testnet v3 story1:04:00 Thoughts on Bitcoin Core1:09:49 BTCD exploit1:11:40 Thoughts on other Bitcoin clients1:16:15 Chaos is good for Bitcoin1:17:10 Soft forks1:23:20 Portland's view on Soft Forks1:32:40 Bitcoin education1:36:10 What are Bitcoiners lacking?Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie Spears reviews news & metrics for all things Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, and Bitcoin Tech.→ Runes market picking up→ Ordinals continue to die→ Bitcoin tech: eCash / Bitcoin Layers→ Saylor on devsFollow 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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”Follow our guest on Twitter: @mikehamilton / @mutabletreesFollow 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.Chapters:00:00:00 Start00:02:55 Mike intro00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker00:15:01 Building Runes tools00:19:24 Airdropping00:23:54 Miners learning Runes00:26:38 Managing UTXOs00:32:17 Including Runes in business model00:34:26 Block templates00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi00:40:16 Fix the filters?00:42:35 Mutable Trees00:48:34 OP_CAT00:52:07 Miners & soft forksQuestions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chainway & Citrea founder, Orkun Kılıç, explains how his team at Chainway is building the first ZK rollup on Bitcoin: Citrea.-Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news! https://blockspace.media/newsletter/Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain.-0:00 Intro1:50 From Eth to Ordinals to Rollups4:00 What is a Rollup?7:30 What differentiates Citrea?9:15 Using inscriptions to post data to Bitcoin12:10 Optimizing beyond Ordinals15:30 BitVM enabling a Bitcoin Bridge16:30 How does Clementine work?19:40 Does BitVM get more pragmatic?21:20 Progress on Implementation24:20 ZK proof verifier R&D26:00 OP_CAT and soft forks27:10 The Sequencer Problem29:50 Competition from other rollups32:20 Citrea to lead Bitcoin programmability34:00 Just how scalable is a rollup?35:05 Using Bitcoin as the token37:40 Where does Citrea go from here?40:10 Resurgence in Bitcoin development Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rijndael & Tyler Whittle tell us the tale of how they wrote the CatVM storybook and how OP_CAT could fulfill the promises a lot of other Bitcoin ideas have failed to deliver.Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news!https://blockspace.media/newsletter/Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Casey Rodarmor & Raphjaph talk about how they built Runes, the future of Ordinals, and what they're working on next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat with Alec Taggart + Cole of Oyl Dynamics about how to build a suite of products that power the Ordinals (and Bitcoin) ecosystem. Oyl started with a wallet, then expanded further down the stack to build Sandshrew & Metashrew -- reimagining user experience, flow, and indexing.Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news!https://blockspace.media/newsletter/Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices