Bitcoin Season 2 | Bitcoin Tech, Culture & Ordinals Blockspace Media

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. 

Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees”

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Start
00:02:55 Mike intro
00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?
00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker
00:15:01 Building Runes tools
00:19:24 Airdropping
00:23:54 Miners learning Runes
00:26:38 Managing UTXOs
00:32:17 Including Runes in business model
00:34:26 Block templates
00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi
00:40:16 Fix the filters?
00:42:35 Mutable Trees
00:48:34 OP_CAT
00:52:07 Miners & soft forks

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Chainway & Citrea founder, Orkun Kılıç, explains how his team at Chainway is building the first ZK rollup on Bitcoin: Citrea.
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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

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.
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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.

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

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.

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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.

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