Blockchain governance as polycentric orders
Explore how blockchain networks function as constitutional & competitive polycentric orders shaped by internal protocols & external market forces
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Bitcoin governance
Bitcoin Hard Forks as Reversible Exit and Continuing Voice
Explore how Hirschman's exit, voice, and loyalty framework applies to Bitcoin hard forks and reversible stakeholder commitment.
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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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BIP-110, Spam, and Bitcoin Governance
The February 23, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Hodlonaut reflecting on his brief public support for BIP-110 and why he withdrew it.
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Bitcoin Spam, BIP110, and the Politics of Blockspace
The February 21, 2026 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Charlie Spears dissecting ongoing battles over so-called Bitcoin spam, ordinals, and the proposed BIP110 soft fork.
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Is Nic Carter Right? Bitcoin’s Quantum Risk and the Governance Challenge
The February 12, 2026 episode of Unchained Pod features Justin Drake and Chris Peikert examining how advances in quantum computing could undermine Bitcoin’s signature security and force difficult upgrade decisions.
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Quantum Risk and Bitcoin’s Upgrade Path
The February 11, 2026 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Matt Corallo examining how Bitcoin should prepare for cryptographically relevant quantum computers without imposing excessive costs on users.
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Bitcoin Governance, Ossification, and the Politics of Soft Forks
The February 06, 2026 episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast features Jimmy Song arguing that Bitcoin’s long-term risks stem less from price crashes and more from governance errors at the consensus layer.
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Bitcoin’s Monetary Purpose vs Nonmonetary Data
The February 02, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Conza arguing that Bitcoin should be understood and evaluated as money rather than as a general-purpose database.
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