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 Mining, AI Compute, and the Power Constraints
The January 8, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Rails podcast features Fred Thiel explaining how Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure converge around power, land, and capacity constraints.
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Bitcoin spam, governance and data policy
The December 02, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Rails podcast features Peter Todd unpacking the history of “spam” on Bitcoin and the politics of arbitrary data.
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Zero-Knowledge Scaling and Bitcoin’s Governance Crossroads
The June 10, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke Podcast features Eli Ben-Sasson explaining how ZK-STARKs offer massive scalability, remove trusted setup, and provide post-quantum security for future settlement layers.
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Citrea Founders: Bitcoin Rollups, OP_RETURN Policy, and the Battle for L1 Block Space
The July 03, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Citrea co-founders Orkun and Ekrem explaining how they are building a Bitcoin rollup that keeps transaction data on L1.
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Arbitrary Data, Node Power, and Bitcoin Governance
The November 06, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Rails features Matt Hill explaining how relay policy can curb arbitrary data without destabilizing consensus. Exchanges and large businesses - the “economic nodes” - anchor fork outcomes while miners follow the chain with real transaction flow.
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Quantum Risk, AI Math, and Bitcoin Governance
The October 15, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Martin Shkreli assessing whether quantum computing or AI-assisted mathematics could threaten ECDSA-secured Bitcoin.
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BRC2.0: Programmable Bitcoin Assets Without a Protocol Token
On October 07, 2025, the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast featured Binari outlining how BRC2.0 brings programmable assets to Bitcoin without a protocol token.
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OP_CAT, Quantum Readiness, and Upgrade Governance on Bitcoin
The September 26, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Ethan Heilman outlining why OP_CAT enables cautious experimentation while respecting Bitcoin’s conservative design.
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Scaling, Security, and Governance in Bitcoin’s Next Phase
The September 18, 2025 episode of Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Tadge Dryja explaining his work on Lightning, discrete log contracts, Utreexo, and post-quantum security.
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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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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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