SLP277 Alejandro De La Torre - Coordinating Bitcoin Upgrades With Mining Pools
May 24, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 277
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Episode description
Alejandro De La Torre, VP of Poolin, a large Bitcoin mining pool joins me on the show to chat about his efforts in helping to coordinate Bitcoin Upgrades:
- Taproot Activation
- Learnings from 2017 SegWit
- UASF or MASF (Miner Activated Soft Fork)
- UASF within MASF
- Distribution of network hashrate
- Future Soft Fork upgrades
Alejandro links:
- Twitter: @bitentrepreneur
- Site: Taprootactivation.com
- Poolin: Poolin.com
Relevant episodes:
- SLP260 Luke Dashjr - How Bitcoin UASF Went Down, Taproot Lot=True, Speedy Trial, Small Blocks
- SLP257 Matt Corallo - Bitcoin Soft Form Activation, Taproot, And Playing Chicken
- SLP200 Christian Decker - Anyprevout, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks
Sponsors:
- Swan Bitcoin
- Hodl Hodl Lend
- Compass Mining
- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
- CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links:
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