Unpacking the latest bitcoin drama, Spark is live, and Epic vs. Apple

0:00 X vs. Stacker News in the latest bitcoin debates

3:40 Updates about the Presidio Bitcoin Hackathon

10:00 What's the drama happening in bitcoin right now? Money vs. Data

16:08 Discussing the debate around bitcoin core node relay policies. Consensus vs. Policy

20:42 What is OP_Return and why it's being discussed

30:20 One reason this is important is there is growing interest in expanding the packet size

38:30 Audience Engagement: Data in the witness is cheaper, so its a preferential storage location

46:40 How this relates to mining centralization and censorship concerns

59:40 When and where should discussions like this take place?

1:09:00 Epic Games vs. Apple. Opens the door for bitcoin as an alternative payment mechanism?

1:20:50 The Quantum Bitcoin Summit happening this June at Presidio Bitcoin

1:24:29 Spark is live! Exploring what it is and evaluating its tradeoffs

1:35:40 De minimis rules coming? That's what we heard at Presidio Bitcoin

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