Bitcoin and Ossification w/ Jameson Lopp
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Chapters
1:26
Lopp introduces himself
3:29
What is ossification?
8:10
Are we experiencing natural ossification since 2017, or is there a narrative or shift that is preventing openness to change?
11:04
Attacks on those who propose activation methods
18:39
Why your sudden focus on pushing back on ossification lately?
29:09
New layers w/o better building blocks leads to more trust and more complexity
51:09
How do we take real steps towards helping Bitcoin continue to evolve?
56:52
Is there a specific change or improvement that you're particularly wanting to see happen?
1:07:21
What about improving Bitcoin's privacy?
1:10:38
Listener questions
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Bitcoin and Ossification w/ Jameson Lopp
Nov 13, 2024
We get to the bottom of what ossification is, why it's harmful to Bitcoin to push for premature ossification, and why we need to improve the building blocks available to developers to enable trustless and useful layers to be built on Bitcoin.
More about Jameson:
- Jameson's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/jameson-lopp/
More about ossification:
- Lopp's recent blog post: https://blog.lopp.net/on-ossification/
- Lopp's debate with Jimmy Song on ossification: https://x.com/LuganoPlanB/status/1855321782581924245
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