David Bailey is the owner of Bitcoin Magazine. Ideologically, he is a Bitcoin maximalist who wants everything to happen on Bitcoin and get traded for BTC. During this episode, we also mint a special ordinal... which you can buy for 3.125 BTC!
Time stamps:
Bitcoin Maximalism (00:04:03)
Inscribing Ordinal 70326676 on Bitcoin (00:11:57)
Criticism and Autonomy in Transactions (00:22:06)
RGB Protocol and Color Coins (00:25:42)
Bitcoin maximalism and control (00:26:02)
OP_CAT and use cases (00:28:12)
CTV vs. OP_CAT (00:29:35)
Bitcoin fees and self-sovereignty (00:35:32)
Scaling and vision alignment (00:42:39)
Favorite L2 proposals and Lightning Network (00:47:55)
Bitcoin Development and Layer Twos (00:51:41)
BitVM and Rootstock (00:52:35)
BitVM's Impact and Developer Interest (00:54:21)
Layer Two Labs and Bitcoin Unity (00:57:25)
Controversy and Character Assassination (01:00:38)
Tether and Bitfinex (01:07:36)
Liquid and Sidechain Adoption (01:12:36)
Permissionless Transactions and Trust Minimization (01:15:20)
Maximalist Support for Software They Didn’t Test (01:16:48)
The Cult of Satoshi (01:21:29)
Use Cases for Bitcoin (01:22:49)
The Evolution of Bitcoin Conferences (01:23:57)
Building a Global Bitcoin Community (01:25:13)
Importance of Diverse Ideas (01:26:23)
Hyperbitcoinization Mission (01:27:41)
Political Dimensions of Conferences (01:28:19)
Navigating Speaker Boycotts (01:29:24)
Community Engagement and Perspectives (01:30:10)
Maintaining Values in Bitcoin (01:31:12)
Nature of Bitcoin's Value (01:36:20)
Block Size Debate (01:38:22)
Future of Bitcoin Scaling (01:39:58)
Understanding Perspectives (01:41:20)
Shared Cancel Culture Experience (01:42:12)
Advocating for Ross Ulbricht (01:43:08)
Closing Remarks (01:44:06)