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Chapters

• 0:00 — Anchor Watch Ad
• 1:28 — Start of Interview with Portland HODL
• 3:25 — Introduction to Portland HODL
• 4:43 — Is Portland HODL a Hero or Villain of Bitcoin?
• 5:51 — Community Determination: Do We Need a Hero?
• 9:30 — Is Bitcoin Fallible?
• 12:53 — Discussion of Spam and Ordinals Breaking Bitcoin
• 16:53 — Spam’s Impact on Global Node Runners
• 19:30 — Adversarial Thinking and Virtuous Voting Nodes
• 21:04 — Bitcoin Nodes: Voting Rights and Influence
• 31:18 — Running a Node for a Political Message
• 34:51 — Podcasters vs Developers
• 39:48 — Mechanic’s Contributions to Bitcoin Perception
• 41:51 — English as the Programming Language of the Future
• 43:41 — Discussion of BugleCore
• 45:40 — Mental and Security Hardships of Being a Node Runner
• 47:14 — Recommendations for New Node Runners
• 52:53 — Value for Value Economy
• 57:31 — Notre Dame Football
• 1:00:53 — Boosts
• 1:05:17 — Portland’s Bitcoin Origin Story
• 1:16:44 — Closing Thoughts
• 1:24:45 — Time Chain Police Song

Mentioned in this episode

• Rod Palmer (1)
• Rob Hamilton (1)

Transcript

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