The Difficulty Adjustment (and Target) | Pierre Rochard, Center of Hash E006
Pierre Rochard, CEO of the Bitcoin Bond Company, discusses the functional importance of bitcoin’s difficulty target and adjustment, how it works at a technical and practical level, and why it is relevant collectively to the energy consumed by the bitcoin network, transaction finality and the issuance schedule of bitcoin’s fixed supply.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-magazine-launches-bitcoin-corporations-show-hosted-pierre-rochard-ceo-bitcoin-bond
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-bitcoin-bond-company/
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#655 Turning ASICs Into Smart Home Heating with Tyler Stevens
Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens, CEO of Exergy, to discuss how Bitcoin mining heat can revolutionize residential heating systems by replacing expensive propane and heating oil while generating cryptocurrency rebates and massively distributing hashrate.
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Bitcoin Mining Pool (de)Centralization | Mark Artymko, Center of Hash E004
Mark Artymko, President and Co-Founder of Ocean, discusses his nearly two decade career in the power industry as an electrical engineer, how Ocean is helping to reverse the trend of bitcoin mining pool centralization, what the key differences are between Ocean and more traditional mining pools and why bitcoin miners more directly controlling their own hash rate is important to bitcoin decentralization and aligning incentives between pools and miners.
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#654: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner with Michael Howell
Marty sits down with Michael Howell to discuss the Fed's predicament at Jackson Hole, global liquidity cycles, the structural shift toward collateral-dependent lending, and how mounting debt refinancing pressures alongside AI capital expenditures are creating conditions that favor monetary inflation hedges like Bitcoin and gold.
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#653: Building the Open Internet with Miljan Braticevic
Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss the growing importance of open protocols like Nostr in the face of increasing censorship and authoritarian pressures, the unique advantages of decentralized social networks over closed platforms, and how Primal is building tools to enable content creators to monetize high-signal long-form content while maintaining user sovereignty.
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