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THE MINING POD: Marathon Digital’s Slipstream and Layer 2 Ambitions

Mar 8, 2024
Marathon Digital's tech team discusses Slipstream and Anduro, exploring anti-censorship, privacy, and meve resistance. They delve into transaction fees, consensus, and user experience in Bitcoin-style mining systems, highlighting meve resistance in Layer 2 solutions. The podcast introduces Alice, a secure layer two solution on the Bitcoin network, emphasizing security, smart contracts, and network stability.
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Quick takeaways

  • Marathon Digital's Slipstream platform promotes innovation in Bitcoin transactions through non-standard transaction processing, encouraging anti-censorship experimentation while upholding core consensus rules.
  • Slipstream ensures fair transaction ordering, revenue generation for miners, and security against front-running, focusing on maintaining miner incentives and preventing miner-extractive value behavior.

Deep dives

Innovative Layer 2 Solutions Introduced by Marathon Digital for Bitcoin Mining

Marathon Digital Holdings introduces a layer two solution for Bitcoin mining, providing inscription layer two software for Bitcoin transactions. The company's slipstream product allows for the processing of non-standard transactions, encouraging innovation in Bitcoin transacting. The product aims to enable main chain transaction innovators to experiment with anti-censorship transactions while ensuring compliance with Bitcoin core consensus rules.

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