Exploring Out-of-Band Fees and MEV Concerns in Mining Pools

Steve Lee and Matt Corallo of Spiral rejoin me on the show to talk about a range of topics. Firstly we discuss the Great Consensus Clean Up which relates to fixing some long standing bugs in Bitcoin. Secondly we talk about MEV and why it’s the wrong term, instead we should be talking about MEVil and the implications for Bitcoin miner centralisation. Finally we address the rumours of Lightning Network being dead or not useful. 

Links: 

• X: @moneyball
• X: @TheBlueMatt 
• BlueMatt's Blog: Stop Calling It MEV
• BIP Proposal: The Great Consensus Cleanup
• Delving post on Great Consensus Clean up Revival
• Steve’s X thread on GCC: https://twitter.com/moneyball/status/1760839436617875485

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