Ep59: Is Bitcoin doomed to follow the same path as email? w/ Jameson Lopp

Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp talks about Bitcoin consensus, ossification, and how he hopes Bitcoin does not follow the same path the email (SMTP) protocol has -- being limited to a handful of centralized providers.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

02:21 Taproot Wizard and Background

06:30 Bitcoin and Ethereum Context

10:09 SMTPification of Bitcoin Explained

13:14 Ossification and Protocol Challenges

19:47 Improving Bitcoin at the Protocol Layer

31:33 Current State of Bitcoin Development

46:09 Soft Forks and Future Proposals

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