Exploring the Significance of Competition and Barriers in the ASIC Chip Business

A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead @ Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining  pool centralisation and what is driving it. 

Links:

• X: @moneyball 
• AJ Town’s ‘Slow and Steady’ post mentioned: 
• Earlier episode also mentioned: SLP433 : v2 P2P Transport Protocol for Bitcoin (BIP324) 

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