AI Data Centers and the Politics of Legitimacy
The August 4, 2026 episode of The Ezra Klein Show features Jasmine Sun examining the growing political backlash against AI data centers.
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Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code
Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production
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Bitcoin Mining at the Energy Edge
The July 7, 2026 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Stephen Barbour describing Bitcoin mining as flexible load for upstream energy production.
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Bitcoin Governance and Client Diversity
The April 13, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast features Josh arguing that Bitcoin Core governance concentrates repository power despite decentralized technical consensus.
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Specifying Bitcoin Consensus and Commons Governance for Node Optionality
The June 15, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Josh of Secure Sovereign presenting Bitcoin Commons, a Rust implementation that formally specifies consensus separately from Core's monolithic codebase.
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Monetary Deflation, Node Sovereignty, and Bitcoin Governance Risk
The June 28, 2026 episode of The Robin Seyr Podcast features Jeff Booth framing deflation as the free market's natural state, distorted by debt-based fiat money.
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Maintainer Concentration and Bitcoin Governance Reform
The February 23, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Nova Podcast features Josh ("Secure Sovereign") presenting a quantitative governance analysis identifying merge-access concentration among a handful of Bitcoin Core maintainers.
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The BIP-110 Choice: A Map of the Communities Behind Bitcoin's Data War
A proposal with vocal grassroots support is entering its August signaling window with minimal miner support. The reason is not that Bitcoiners have stopped
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How to prepare a briefing note
Regular visitors will have noticed that I quit posting briefing notes for individual Bitcoin podcasts. With the advances in AI, it just didn'
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Bitcoin as Protocol, Custody, and Monetary Transition
The March 12, 2026 Brandon Gentile interview with Jeff Booth frames Bitcoin as a protocol repricing all assets rather than a dollar-denominated investment vehicle.
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Bitcoin Price Discovery, Custody Risk, and Hard-Asset Repricing
The March 9, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix features Roberto Rios arguing that distortions in paper asset markets and sovereign hard-asset accumulation are setting up a major Bitcoin repricing.
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Bitcoin, Geopolitical Fracture, and Institutional Allocation
The March 8, 2026 Brandon Gentile Podcast interview features Matt Hougan arguing that geopolitical fracture and fiscal strain are strengthening Bitcoin’s long-run role as a non-political store of value.
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