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cover of episode SLP66 James O’Beirne - The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin

SLP66 James O’Beirne - The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin

2019/4/10
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James O’Beirne, Bitcoin Core Engineer at Chaincode Labs joins me in this episode to talk about the real nature of ‘power’ and control within Bitcoin. It’s not as simple as it might first seem! We talk about: 

  • Differing conceptions of ‘power’ in Bitcoin

  • Peer to peer network governance

  • Bitcoin Core development

  • Assume utxo

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