Exploring Miner Extractable Value and Its Impact on Bitcoin's Utility

Walt Smith of cyber.fund joins me to discuss thoughts on MEV and where it may be going on Bitcoin. 

We discuss:

• Defining MEV

• 10 minute block time?

• Does it centralise Bitcoin?

• Suffering from success

• The approach on shitcoins and spam

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro 

(02:02) - Defining MEV

(06:02) - Replace-by-fee (RBF)

(11:01) - Concern regarding miner centralisation 

(18:56) - Growth of private mempool flow & MEV potential?

(24:55) - Are mining pools transparent with fee payouts?

(27:01) - Expressivity on Bitcoin 

(31:21) - Sponsors

(35:24) - Does the 10 minute block time mitigate MEV?

(40:27) - Is Bitcoin more than ‘money’?

(46:05) - Fake L2's on Bitcoin

(51:24) - Does MEV lead to miner centralisation? 

(56:15) - Closing thoughts on MEV

Links:

• X: @waltjsmith

• X: @cyberFund_

• Site: cyber.fund

• Article: The Spectre of MEV on Bitcoin

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)

• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

• Mempool.space

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