Bitcoin MEV Risks and Mining Decentralization
The July 23, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Matt Corallo explaining how MEV, pool structures, and regulatory uncertainty threaten Bitcoin’s decentralization.
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Stratum V2 as a Lever Against Mining-Pool Centralization
The February 14, 2025 episode of Ian Major features General Kenobi explaining how mining-pool concentration arises from Stratum V1’s pool-side block-template control. Kenobi argues Stratum V2 reduces interception risks while improving payout transparency.
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Mining Centralization, Spam Exploits, and Bitcoin’s Resilience
The May 24, 2024 episode of The Bitcoin Way podcast features Bitcoin Mechanic explaining how mining centralization, Full Pay Per Share (FPPS) payout schemes, and spam exploits threaten Bitcoin’s long-term sustainability.
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Censorship Risk, Fee Markets, and Practical Privacy in Bitcoin
The July 30, 2024 episode of Ungovernable Misfits features Max Tannahill examining miner filtering, fee dynamics from ordinals, and user privacy stacks. Tannahill argues that normalizing the exclusion of inscriptions sets a precedent for broader policy lists as mining centralizes.
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Bitcoin Consensus and Upgrade Risks
The November 18, 2024 episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast features Lyn Alden and Steve Lee analyzing risks in Bitcoin consensus and protocol upgrades.
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Securing Bitcoin Core: Relay Policy, Fees, and Privacy
The December 28, 2024 episode of the Human Rights Foundation at PubKey podcast features Bitcoin Core maintainer Gloria Zhao discussing how Core underpins transaction relay, censorship resistance, and node accessibility.
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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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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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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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