Veteran Bitcoin commentator and inventor of Drivechains Paul Sztorc joins the show to talk Bitcoin's sustainability and the role of merged mined side chains.
-- The eposide page on the On The Brink website has some more details:
  • Why Paul is the ‘Steely Dan’ of Bitcoin
  • Revisiting ‘Measuring decentralization’
  • Revisiting Paul’s argument on Proof of Stake being veiled PoW
  • Why you should roll your own statistics
  • Concentration of power in miners and mining pools
  • Is PoW worthless if it isn’t challenged?
  • How Bitcoin energy FUD is based on neo-malthusianism
  • The Julian Simon / Paul Ehrlich wager
  • Why none of our resources are finite
  • How climate change diplomacy is neo-colonial
  • Why and when innovation happens
  • Why Paul is a critic of Bitcoin development culture
  • Paul’s critique of Stock to Flow
  • Why Bitcoin culture is static
  • Why Bitcoin needs more satire
  • Bitcoin fees are 80-100x less than those of Ethereum
  • Why BTC fees are not sustainably high
  • Why Bitcoin fees and security budget need to grow over time
  • Can you just wait for more confirmations if security spend declines
  • Are fees destined to be effectively 0 through the creation of more blockspace?
  • The history of Drivechains /BIP300
  • Does merge mining make it more expensive to run a node?
  • Do we know how to upgrade Bitcoin Core today?
  • The relevance of sidechains and merge mining to Bitcoin today
  • Was Satoshi into altcoins?
  • Would more sidechain development have inhibited the growth of Ethereum?
  • Does BIP300 solve the problem of the Bitcoin security budget?
  • Why you can’t reduce blockspace to increase security budget?
  • Update on Drivechains
Content mentioned in this episode:
  • Truthcoin, Security Budget in the Long Run
  • Truthcoin, Security Budget II, Low Fees, and Merged Mining
  • Truthcoin, Measuring Decentralization
  • Truthcoin, Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work
  • All about Drivechains/ Bip300/301
This podcast is referred to in a later, related post here on SN:
What Drives Bitcoin Fees? Using Segwit to Assess Bitcoin's Long-Run Sustainability | Bank of Canada #11280 https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2022/01/staff-working-paper-2022-2/
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