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Why Bitcoin Should Not Ossify - Steve Lee SLP569
About this episode
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)
Sponsors:
- Swan.com (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
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