Bitcoin is supposed to have high fees in order to compensate for the mining rewards that get cut in half every 4 years.
So why are so many people complaining when the fees are high?
Listen to S15 E9 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to hear a pretty nuanced debate with Kevin Loaec.
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Pro tip: studying Bitcoin doesn’t mean reading a couple of non-technical books, listening to podcasts that LARP about the same ideas of sound money, and following a bunch of influencers on the Elon app.
Follow devs, listen to Bitcoin Takeover podcast, read Grokking Bitcoin, always aspire to discover more. 
In S15 E10 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 learns about the Supra Cycle 🏎️
At first, he makes the common mistake of thinking about the Super Cycle.
But once he figured out what this is about, he expresses some very positive thoughts about buying Supras instead of Lambos.
To learn more, listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube!
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In S15 E9 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Kevin Loaec talks about Liana wallet and to which extent the inheritance system can get built on Bitcoin’s second layers.
Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube 🎧
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Did Satoshi Nakamoto predict the emergence of mining pools?
In S15 E8 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Ryan Condron argues that predicting the industrialization of an activity that’s rewarded with a global form of currency is fairly easy.
Listen to the entire episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube!
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Mining pools really took Satoshi Nakamoto by surprise: originally, he assumed that Bitcoin would be secured by solo miners competing with their computers' processing power.
But as nostr:npub1q3t5ttqwjzjrv9q68twaj4t4ct4dg7mp8azjsu5rukqzlalan87s57u7l3 proved in 2010, a collaborative approach makes more sense and helps small players get more frequent (albeit smaller) rewards.
Listen to S15 E8 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast (featuring Ryan Condron) to learn more about the early years of Bitcoin mining!
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Not too many people know, but Sergio Demian Lerner did the original research which concluded that Satoshi Nakamoto might have mined 1 million bitcoins.
It’s called the Patoshi project and it also proves that Satoshi never sold a single BTC.
To learn more about this research, listen to S15 E7 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast – now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube & more!
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In S15 E8 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Ryan Condron tells the story about how solo mining stopped being profitable sometime in 2013 – even for the popular alts that were being mined to buy more bitcoin.
Listen to the interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube!
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In S15 E8 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Ryan Condron presents a short history of Bitcoin mining and how quickly it evolved from CPUs to GPUs to FPGAs and then ASICs.
Listen to the episode now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube!
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What’s the long German word for having the hottest podcast in Bitcoin, but still flying under the radar?
If quantum computers are so powerful that they’ve turned into a threat against Bitcoin, how come they were never used to brute force one of Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallets?
The coins are clearly out there in the open and haven’t moved since they were mined. So could it be that quantum computing is a paper tiger and will remain so for years even under Moore’s law?
Listen to S15 E6 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to learn more 🖥️
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In S15 E7 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Sergio Demian Lerner explains why he decided to build layers on top of Bitcoin very early on.
At first, the Rootstock architect was unhappy about Bitcoin’s lack of privacy and scalability. But after the scaling debate started in 2015, it became apparent that changing the base layer would become increasingly difficult.
This is why he created and launched Bitcoin’s first sidechain.
Learn more by listening to the entire episode! 🎧
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At 5 PM ET/11 PM CET, I’m going live with Paul Sztorc to perform a special challenge:
We talk about Bitcoin’s various sidechains & layer 2s, but he’s not allowed to mention BIP300 or Drivechains.
Every time he does, he will have to send a Lightning transaction or do pushups 🙃
In S15 E6 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, John Light explains his approach to upgrading Bitcoin:
While he is in favor of activating soft forks, he also believes that regarding every new proposal with skepticism is the best way to approach this process.
Listen to the interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube! 🎧
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What’s the next Bitcoin soft fork?
According to the unanimous predictions of John Light, @Super Testnet & Alexei Zamyatin, it’s going to be OP_CTV.
John also gives a nod to BIP300, while Super Testnet is one of the developers who theorized Drivechains can get enabled by BitVM.
Learn more by listening to S15 E6 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast!
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Are there any better platforms?
When I interviewed Phil Zimmermann (creator of PGP, Hal Finney’s boss & the guy who made open source cryptography possible), I expected tens of thousands of YouTube views + some media coverage.
However, the reality is that the Bitcoin culture is fucked. We worship hopium dealers who LARP about multi-million dollar prices, but pay little to no attention to the cypherpunks who paved the way towards Bitcoin.
Sad! 
Home Bitcoin mining update:
I kept the S9 space heater I received from HashVortex at 900W during the coldest night, my room was super warm.
Today I lowered the power to 450W and then 300W. The weather got warmer.
In these 2 days, I made 0.00002125 BTC with Luxor.
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