Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.
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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!
We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud
00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?
00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro
00:10:45 Antpool block template use
00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?
00:17:18 Ocean Pool
00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation
00:20:19 Mining Testnet
00:21:30 Resetting Testnet
00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect
00:24:16 OP_RETURN
00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?
00:28:23 MEV is dangerous
00:30:35 RBF transactions
00:31:20 MEV types
00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters
00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project
00:36:10 Suggestions for miners
00:37:36 OP_CAT
00:42:40 OP Code prediction
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