Bitcoin Mechanic: Is Bitcoin Too Centralized? Freedom Money vs. State-Surveilled Store of Value

Описание: In this conversation with Ocean Mining's Bitcoin Mechanic, we discuss:
Bitcoin Mechanic - From Occupy Wall Street to Finding Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin too centralized?
Censorship in Bitcoin?
Mining pools and 51% attacks
Mechanics of Bitcoin mining pools
Can you attack the internet and thus attack Bitcoin?

Bio: Bitcoin Mechanic is a Bitcoin educator and "Chief Boiling Officer" at OCEAN, a mining pool which seeks to break up the centralization of mining and template construction.

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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Discovering Bitcoin in 2011
2:11 Bitcoin mining
3:03 What is OCEAN?
6:36 Bitdeer Technologies Group
7:32 Construction blocks and templates
9:06 Is Bitcoin censorship resistant?
10:40 Why be part of a mining pool?
12:21 The power of mining pools
16:10 Are mining pools companies?
19:19 Is the Bitcoin network self-cleaning?
23:20 Is Bitcoin a currency or store of value?
25:48 Casa, Speed Wallet
26:47 Coinkite, The Bitcoin Way
27:43 Trending toward decentralization
31:45 Biggest Bitcoin mining pools
35:15 Bitcoin network's future
40:38 Bitcoin's resiliency
43:42 Can the Bitcoin network be attacked?
48:42 Can Bitcoin remain permissionless?
51:19 Decentralizing mining
55:00 Bitcoin's evolution

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