THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd

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Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.

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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!

We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud

00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?

00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro

00:10:45 Antpool block template use

00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?

00:17:18 Ocean Pool

00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation

00:20:19 Mining Testnet

00:21:30 Resetting Testnet

00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect

00:24:16 OP_RETURN

00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?

00:28:23 MEV is dangerous

00:30:35 RBF transactions

00:31:20 MEV types

00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters

00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project

00:36:10 Suggestions for miners

00:37:36 OP_CAT

00:42:40 OP Code prediction

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