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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.