Bitcoin Nodes, Sovereign Computing, and Education Futures
The October 01, 2024 episode of the Juan Cienfuegos Podcast features Matt Hill explaining how StartOS enables non-technical users to run Bitcoin nodes and personal servers.
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Murray Rudd
Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
Securing Bitcoin: Time Warp, Validation Costs, and Safe Upgrades
The July 29, 2024 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Antoine Poinsot explaining inheritance tooling, the Great Consensus Cleanup, and recent Bitcoin Core disclosures.
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Slipstream, Relay Policy, and the Economics of Miner Control
The June 28, 2024 episode of The Mining Pod features Portland Hodl explaining how Slipstream enables direct-to-miner transaction submission that bypasses standard relay filters.
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Quantum Risk and Bitcoin’s Governance Challenge
The September 11, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Jameson Lopp examining how quantum computing could endanger Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography and unlock vulnerable Satoshi-era coins.
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Defending Bitcoin’s Neutrality: Mining, Nodes, and Censorship Pressures
The July 18, 2024 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Bitcoin Mechanic examining how mining concentration and policy chokepoints could erode transaction neutrality and user sovereignty.
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Mining Centralization, Spam Attacks, and Miner Autonomy
The June 17, 2024 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix features Luke Dashjr explaining how mining centralization concentrates block decisions and weakens censorship resistance. He describes recent spam waves as gamified attacks and argues that miner-led filtration has always been part of Bitcoin’s design.
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Covenants, Culture, and Bitcoin’s Cross-Chain Onboarding
The July 15, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Udi Wertheimer explaining how Taproot Wizards use ordinals, NFTs, and lore to attract new audiences to Bitcoin.
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Consensus, Activation, and Institutional Risks in Bitcoin Governance
The November 16, 2024 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Lyn Alden and Steve Lee analyzing how Bitcoin consensus differs from relay policies and why this distinction matters for network safety.
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Bitcoin’s Mempool Policy, RBF Dynamics, and Network Resilience
The May 08, 2024 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Gloria Zhao explaining how Bitcoin Core governance is constrained by transparency and reversibility, limiting unilateral authority.
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Runes, Ordinals, and Bitcoin’s Relay-Policy Risk Curve
The April 19, 2024 episode of The Mining Pod features Casey Rodarmor and Raphjaph examining ordinals, inscriptions, and the Runes token design on Bitcoin.
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Mining Centralization, Custody Risk, and Node Governance
The September 12, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Way features Knut Svanholm examining mining centralization as Bitcoin’s central systemic threat. He frames the Core–Knots divide as a governance stress test led by vigilant users.
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Bitcoin Filtering, Miner APIs, and Custody Risks
The September 12, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Jameson Lopp analyzing the Knots–Core filtering debate and why relay policies cannot change consensus.
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