In this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turns into a rant about LLMs acting like corporate yes-men, and the frustrations of running AI locally.

But we do get back to the money. We talk about the St. Louis Fed literally copyrighting Bitcoin price data, France tracking self-hosted wallets, Steve’s update on UTXOracle, and why the quantum computing threat looks a lot more like a funding scam with terrible marketing.

On the technical side, we get into the proposed cluster mempool changes in Bitcoin Core. Mechanic also shares his view on renting hashrate, and how much money giant pools waste by ignoring empty block speedups.

Guest Links

• Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
• Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x.com/stevesimple)
• Bitcoin Mechanic Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2tm827ut)
• Bitcoin Mechanic on X (Link: https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin)
• Jeff Swann Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3sjc3bcp)
• Jeff Swann on X (Link: https://x.com/agoristview)

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Introduction to the Roundtable
• (00:05:16) - Building the UTXO Oracle Reference Price
• (00:15:09) - Ocean Mining Pool Hashrate and Core Drama
• (00:23:40) - Analyzing AI Model Costs and Economic Feasibility
• (00:37:05) - Iran Reportedly Taking Bitcoin Tolls for Shipping
• (00:42:08) - VPN Usage and Legal Realities in Autocracies
• (00:53:12) - Governement Advancing Self-Hosted Wallet Regulations
• (00:59:06) - Debunking Google Quantum Computing Encryption Threats
• (01:16:45) - Analyzing Cluster Mempool Feasibility in Bitcoin Core
• (01:28:01) - AI Agents Operating Wallets
• (01:33:14) - The Rise of Decentralized Rentable Hashrate
• (01:44:26) - Hosted Bitcoin Nodes and Stratum Uptime Solutions
• (01:57:17) - Non-Custodial Wallet Adoption on Nostr
• (02:02:37) - Lightning Network UX Challenges and Bolt 12
• (02:13:14) - Updates and Final Thoughts