On The Brink with Castle Island

Roundup 10/28/22 (Bitcoin’s hashrate spike, Miner insolvencies, Lightning v Rollups) (EP.365)

Oct 28, 2022

39:59

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Is There a World Where Every Miner Is Competing?

02:21

Bitcoin Mining Deals of the Week - Sparse Week

03:19

Roll-Ups Are a Better Scaling Strategy Than Anything That's Happening on Bitcoin

02:45

Introduction

2min

Is It Busy Week?

2min

The No-Coiners Have a Conference Dedicated to Hating on Crypto

2min

Roll-Ups Are a Better Scaling Strategy Than Anything That's Happening on Bitcoin

3min

Is Lightning a Good Scaling Solution for Bitcoin?

2min

Bitcoin Cash

3min

Bitcoin Mining

2min

Is There a World Where Every Miner Is Competing?

2min

Is the ASICS Going to Be the Worst Kind of Collateral?

2min

10.

Bitcoin Mining Deals of the Week - Sparse Week

3min

11.

What if Sam Bankman Freed Baez Twitter?

2min

12.

The Banks Are Holding the Debt Still

4min

13.

DM Search

2min

14.

NewL1s - I Don't Support the L1s

3min

15.

The Chinese Are Activating Quote Unquote Escape Plans and Why This Is Good News for Bitcoin

2min

16.

Bitcoin News

2min

17.

Bitcoin and Crypto Markets Hanging in Compared to Equities

3min

Matt and Nic are back for another week of deals and news. In this episode:

Full time crypto haters
What’s the deal with the nocoiner think tank?
Eric Wall and Udi vs Bitcoiners
Did Bitcoin put all of its eggs in the LN basket?
Scaling isn’t LN versus big blocks any more
Is there just one scaling solution for blockchains?
What are the prospects for ZK Rollups on Bitcoin?
Spam attacks on BSV and Zcash
Bitcoin Miners are going bankrupt
How did the Ethereum merge affect Bitcoin miners
What’s the deal with Bitcoin’s hashrate spike?
Are non-economic Bitcoin miners killing the free market for mining?
What’s the deal with miner lenders?
Synthetic Bitcoin stablecoins
Is Twitter fairly priced at the deal price?
Matt Levine’s 40k word article on crypto
Is the pivot finally in?

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