6 episodes

We explore the edges of blockspace, from Ordinals to Layer 2s and back. Join host Charlie Spears for weekly interviews and livestreams on Bitcoin’s frontier.

Bitcoin Season 2 | Bitcoin Tech, Culture & Ordinals Blockspace Podcast Network

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We explore the edges of blockspace, from Ordinals to Layer 2s and back. Join host Charlie Spears for weekly interviews and livestreams on Bitcoin’s frontier.

    How to Build a Bitcoin Rollup: Citrea

    How to Build a Bitcoin Rollup: Citrea

    Chainway & Citrea founder, Orkun Kılıç, explains how his team at Chainway is building the first ZK rollup on Bitcoin: Citrea.
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    Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain.
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    0:00 Intro
    1:50 From Eth to Ordinals to Rollups
    4:00 What is a Rollup?
    7:30 What differentiates Citrea?
    9:15 Using inscriptions to post data to Bitcoin
    12:10 Optimizing beyond Ordinals
    15:30 BitVM enabling a Bitcoin Bridge
    16:30 How does Clementine work?
    19:40 Does BitVM get more pragmatic?
    21:20 Progress on Implementation
    24:20 ZK proof verifier R&D
    26:00 OP_CAT and soft forks
    27:10 The Sequencer Problem
    29:50 Competition from other rollups
    32:20 Citrea to lead Bitcoin programmability
    34:00 Just how scalable is a rollup?
    35:05 Using Bitcoin as the token
    37:40 Where does Citrea go from here?
    40:10 Resurgence in Bitcoin development

    • 43 min
    How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM

    How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM

    Rijndael & Tyler Whittle tell us the tale of how they wrote the CatVM storybook and how OP_CAT could fulfill the promises a lot of other Bitcoin ideas have failed to deliver.
    Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news!
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    Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain.

    • 58 min
    Casey & Raph: Behind Runes & Ordinals

    Casey & Raph: Behind Runes & Ordinals

    Casey Rodarmor & Raphjaph talk about how they built Runes, the future of Ordinals, and what they're working on next!

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    Making Ordinals (tooling) Make Sense

    Making Ordinals (tooling) Make Sense

    We chat with Alec Taggart + Cole of Oyl Dynamics about how to build a suite of products that power the Ordinals (and Bitcoin) ecosystem. Oyl started with a wallet, then expanded further down the stack to build Sandshrew & Metashrew -- reimagining user experience, flow, and indexing.

    Subscribe to Blockspace Media newsletter to get all your Bitcoin Season 2 news!
    https://blockspace.media/newsletter/

    Bitcoin Season 2 is about new ideas, new conversations on Bitcoin. It's the technical and cultural smashed together for an exciting era of new topics on the oldest blockchain.

    • 40 min
    BitVM Brawl & Pre-Runes Market Madness!

    BitVM Brawl & Pre-Runes Market Madness!

    We've got Post Capone helping us understand the latest BitVM discussion & Lyndoco talking with us about "Runes Mania"!

    • 45 min
    MEV On Bitcoin? With Walt Smith and Julian Duran

    MEV On Bitcoin? With Walt Smith and Julian Duran

    We break down Miner Extractable Value on Bitcoin, from current occurrences to forward looking concerns. Charlie is joined by Walt Smith of Cyber Fund and Julian Duran of Marathon Digital to discuss MEV on Bitcoin!

    Bitcoin Season 2 covers current conversations about new ideas on Bitcoin.
    Livestream on a weeknight, VOD on weekday. Bitcoin Season 2 covers current conversations about new ideas on Bitcoin.
    Contact: hello@blockspace.media

    • 59 min

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