Episode notes
Time stamps:
00:00:46 – Introducing Lukas Hosoda, author and Rust developer at Braiins
00:03:08 – Discovering Bitcoin at age 12 and mining
00:07:04 – Career at Braiins
00:09:43 – Braiins Office Mining & ASICs
00:13:01 – Braiins Mini Miner (BMM101)
00:15:16 – Drivechains & Sidechains
00:17:49 – Bitcoin News & Braiins Blog
00:19:01 – Braiins HashPower Product
00:21:39 – Mining Decentralization
00:22:51 – Cake Wallet & Zcash Giveaway
00:24:01 – Terraria Plugin Development
00:27:44 – SideShift & Swapping
00:31:11 – Breadwallet & Node Mapping
00:33:38 – Joining Braiins as a Rust Programmer
00:36:06 – Writing the Book "Building Bitcoin in Rust"
00:39:43 – BIP 110/444 Research
00:40:55 – How Bitcoin's Gossip Network Works
00:44:31 – Mempool & Private Transactions
00:45:54 – Marathon Slipstream .
00:47:10 – History of OP_RETURN & Arbitrary Data on Bitcoin
00:51:19 – Spam, Transaction Fees & Block Size
00:55:18 – UTXO Set Growth
00:57:50 – ZK Proofs & Ethereum
00:58:44 – Nostr Community's Emotional Approach to Bitcoin
00:59:28 – Filtering Challenges
01:01:38 – Ordinal Inscriptions & Developer Response
01:02:54 – Mining Pools & Incentives
01:05:31 – Block Subsidy & Layer 2s
01:07:31 – User Growth, Adoption & Institutions
01:11:09 – BIP 444/110 Analysis
01:15:27 – Data Limits & Programming
01:19:09 – Forks & Market Reactions
01:22:58 – Bitcoin’s Core Values
01:25:49 – Node Running Legal Risks & Institutions
01:29:00 – Giveaway & Closing
01:31:26 – Recurring Bitcoin Debates
01:35:06 – Toxicity in Debates
01:36:35 – Epstein Files & Final Thoughts