The Gwart Show | Bitcoin Tech & Culture Gwarty

Welcome back! In Part 2 of The Gwart Show, Alex B shares his insights on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the broader crypto landscape. He discusses the flaws in Ethereum's proof of stake model, the cult-like phenomena in crypto, the reality of the Lightning Network, and the centralization concerns in DeFi. Alex also touches on the necessity of stablecoins and the constant innovation in crypto tech.

Published weekly on Sunday afternoons, "The Gwart Show” gets to the bottom of crypto’s toughest topics.

Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:03 Intro
00:02:44 Anything interesting in crypto?
00:15:50 Ethereum's proof of stake
00:23:48 Alex's Ethereum predictions
00:34:33 Ethereum staking derivatives
00:38:50 Bitcoin DLCs & lending
00:44:27 Decentralized finance challenges
00:48:30 Open source vs liquidity
00:53:42 Lightning Network marketing
00:59:27 Lightning elegant but limited
01:03:39 Stablecoins on Lightning

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Alex B, writer at Bitcoin Magazine and longtime Bitcoin Twitter user, joins The Gwart Show in this two part series on the heart and soul of Bitcoin maximalism, why it matters, if Bitcoin Season 2 is a sham and, of course, if Ethereum is a scam.

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Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:18 Introducing Alex Be 
00:05:41 Bitcoin scaling discussion
00:17:44 Necessary Bitcoin primitives
00:36:02 Protocols & Bitcoin economy
00:38:18 Incremental vs risky changes
00:48:30 Eric & Rudy's views
00:49:44 Bitcoiners' concerns
00:50:50 Defi's degeneracy
01:00:31 MEV on Bitcoin
01:02:03 Miners & economies of scale
01:09:55 Drive chains & merged mining
01:14:21 Meta protocols & centralization
01:18:55 Miners & meme coins
01:20:21 Ordinals' impact on Bitcoin

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Eugene Chen, co-founder of Ellipsis Labs, discusses the future of decentralized finance, Solana's vision for transforming traditional finance, and how Phenix aims to redefine on-chain trading. He also shares insights on the Ethereum vs. Solana debate and the challenges of optimizing blockchains for Defi applications.

Published randomly, "The Gwart Show” gets to the bottom of crypto’s toughest topics.

00:00:00 Start
00:00:18 Eugene's background 
00:01:17 Defi work before Ellipsis
00:02:21 From HFT to Defi
00:05:25 Competing with TradFi
00:08:07 Phenix as proof of concept
00:10:18 Providing better liquidity
00:13:48 Solana's issues & progress
00:16:47 Solana's research focus
00:19:24 Gita removes mempool 
00:20:28 MEV: AMMs vs order books
00:23:43 Ethereum MEV direction
00:25:13 Solana's speed & MEV
00:29:07 Ellipsis' 5-15yr vision
00:35:09 Ideal decentralization 
00:35:50 Solana token & platform
00:38:16 Economic security as meme
00:41:33 Defi's on-chain strengths
00:44:47 Rollups & interoperability
00:48:30 Valid Solana criticisms
00:51:31 Solana vs new fast chains

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Mechanism this, mechanism that. Why does crypto infrastructure even matter? Gwart tunes in with Alex Nezlobin to discuss the history and importance of AMMs like Uniswap.

Published randomly, "The Gwart Show” gets to the bottom of crypto’s toughest topics.

Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:11 Alex's Background
00:04:21 Problems in TradFi
00:06:29 Alex's Interest in AMMs
00:17:16 Robinhood & Payment for Order Flow
00:22:52 The Future of AMMs
00:27:31 Frontrunning & Insider Trading
00:37:31 AMM Landscape on Ethereum
00:46:46 Colocation & Latency
00:52:28 Builder Centralization
01:08:18 Fast Chains & AMM Losses
01:25:13 AMMs in 20 Years
01:34:36 Wrap-up

Rjindael of the the Taproot Wizards joins Gwart to get to the bottom of Bitcoin’s soul search. Does Bitcoin need a revival? Are the Wizards going to hard? Is Lightning really broken? Who will stop the impending flood of Bitcoin MEV?
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Mike Neuder of the EF and Max Resnick of SMG join Gwart to fix Ethereum MEV in one podcast. Mike, Max and Gwart talk MEV, Bitcoin and more.

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