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Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd
Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.
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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and mining is a big part of that!
We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin, and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!
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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz.
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William Foxley
Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.
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