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  • Mining Centralization, Custody Risk, and Node Governance

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Bitcoin Filtering, Miner APIs, and Custody Risks

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Relay Policy, Node Power, and Fork Risk in Bitcoin

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Treasuries Driving Lightning Liquidity and Payments Scale

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Core vs Knots, Nigeria Policy, and Africa’s Bitcoin Developer Pipeline

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Value, Action, and Bitcoin’s Quality Framework (a critique of Robert Breedlove’s interview with Sevilla King)

    Normally, I have a qualifier here: “My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views.” However, I found this interview to be so far off the mark (Robert Breedlove, not Sevilla King) that I decided to do use the briefing note as a jumping off point for my

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  • Bitcoin’s Internal Threat Vector: Pools, Nodes, and Governance

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Private Money, Stablecoins, and the Genius Act

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Broken Money, Dedollarization, and the AI–Energy Shift

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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  • Bitcoin’s Infinite Game: Deflation, Incentives, and Governance Risks

    My ‘briefing notes’ summarize the content of podcast episodes; they do not reflect my own views. They contain (1) a summary of podcast content, (2) potential information gaps, and (3) some speculative views on wider Bitcoin implications. Pay attention to broadcast dates (I often summarize older episodes) Some episodes I summarize may be sponsored: don’t

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