S15 E46: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Covenants, Tail Emission, OpenTimestamps & Why Lightning Rocks

Peter Todd is known for being brutally honest: so when it comes to topics such as covenant soft forks, monetary inflation, Bitcoin scaling & privacy, he won't hold back from being critical while expressing his love for the Lightning network. Time stamps: Introducing Peter Todd (00:00:41) Full RBF Discussion (00:01:56) Free Relay Attack Insights (00:04:05) Economic Incentives for Miners (00:05:00) Tail Emission Proposal (00:06:43) Critique of Fixed Supply Beliefs (00:08:43) Litecoin, Dogecoin & Tail Emission (00:11:30) Covenants in Bitcoin (00:13:21) Covenants and Lightning Network (00:14:21) Transaction Cycling Attack in Lightning (00:16:02) State of the Lightning Network (00:17:11) Discussions on ZK Rollups (00:18:55) Concerns Over Changing Incentives (00:19:26) Objections to ZK Rollups (00:20:21) Drivechains and Politics (00:22:05) Risks of Miner Politics (00:23:56) Hashrate Decentralization Debate (00:24:01) Prediction Markets and Decentralization (00:26:25) Covenants and Drivechains (00:27:08) Covenants vs. CTV (00:28:33) Cashu and Lightning Network (00:29:50) BitVM and Sidechains (00:31:46) Excitement About Lightning (00:33:02) Critique of Fee-Free Transactions (00:34:20) Peter Todd & John Dillon (00:36:13) Open Timestamps in 2023 Guatemala Presidential Elections (00:37:41) Voting Fraud Evidence (00:39:51) Timestamping the Internet Archive (00:42:33) Non-Scammy Cryptocurrencies (00:45:30) Mimble Wimble Extension Block (00:47:57) The Future of Bitcoin (00:49:05) Peter's Current Projects and Funding (00:51:02)

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