It’s Name Was OP_CAT

The Mining Pod | Blockspace Media

May 03, 2024•32 min

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Episode description

In this week’s Mining Pod, Charlie, Matt, Will and special guest Walt Smith of Cyber Fund discuss the talks from Bitcoin developer conference Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas, with special focus on new soft forks for Bitcoin that could bring more programmability on-chain.

00:00 Start

01:37 What is Bitcoin ++?

05:09 Specter of MEV on Bitcoin

11:49 Defining MEV

17:23 Slipstream & Data Blobs

21:08 Protocol Ossification

23:56 OP_CAT

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