Episode notes
Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto.
00:49 – The Cake Wallet contest explained
01:22 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker
02:07 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project
03:28 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story
07:02 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage
09:21 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology
12:03 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker
13:53 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides
15:46 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik
17:13 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence
19:14 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size was not controversial
22:46 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB
25:23 – Lightning, Liquid, and the migration of activity to other chains
29:03 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession
30:42 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis
32:19 – BTC's share of market cap vs its share of transactions
32:42 – Tether on Tron and the Tetheral Reserve
35:39 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa declined
37:36 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV?
40:24 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap
41:37 – SPV debates and engineering for perfection
44:24 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack
47:01 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed by a BCH developer
48:23 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes
48:58 – The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment and the Mike Hearn wish
51:18 – The merchant adoption Bitcoin lost
52:24 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning's 5,000
53:09 – Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash
59:38 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc
1:03:36 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018
1:08:08 – Rolling checkpoints and the night of the fork
1:11:46 – Where Kurt was when the chain split
1:16:47 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs
1:21:10 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's defense
1:24:17 – Who invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool
1:31:41 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks
1:33:05 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot
1:37:04 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug
1:39:16 – The poker client and marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1
1:41:48 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference
1:47:39 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV
1:48:05 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks
1:51:03 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback
1:55:33 – The white paper's immutability clause vs DAR
2:03:55 – Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario
2:08:33 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works
2:11:56 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi?
2:15:36 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy, and the Satoshi writing style
2:23:28 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives
2:27:50 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address
2:32:00 – Bitcoin as an American project
2:35:32 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show
2:36:29 – If Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers?
2:44:57 – The Arnhem 2017 speech
2:50:56 – Craig's neurodivergence and the villain arc
2:59:23 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony
3:04:58 – The rental Lamborghini and the pattern of bending truth
3:12:31 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations
3:14:04 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright?
3:19:24 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated
3:20:44 – The giveaway reveal: the number is 40
3:22:24 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died?
3:24:46 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer
3:26:43 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity
3:29:01 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce
3:32:00 – The Epstein money vindication
3:35:12 – Kurt's plugs: Gorilla Pool, kurtwuckertjr.com, bopen.ai
3:36:12 – Vlad's promise: this episode goes on the BSV blockchain
3:38:00 – The Mike Hearn introduction request
3:38:15 – Outro and sponsor thanks
00:49 – The Cake Wallet contest explained
01:22 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker
02:07 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project
03:28 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story
07:02 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage
09:21 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology
12:03 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker
13:53 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides
15:46 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik
17:13 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence
19:14 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size was not controversial
22:46 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB
25:23 – Lightning, Liquid, and the migration of activity to other chains
29:03 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession
30:42 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis
32:19 – BTC's share of market cap vs its share of transactions
32:42 – Tether on Tron and the Tetheral Reserve
35:39 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa declined
37:36 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV?
40:24 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap
41:37 – SPV debates and engineering for perfection
44:24 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack
47:01 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed by a BCH developer
48:23 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes
48:58 – The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment and the Mike Hearn wish
51:18 – The merchant adoption Bitcoin lost
52:24 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning's 5,000
53:09 – Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash
59:38 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc
1:03:36 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018
1:08:08 – Rolling checkpoints and the night of the fork
1:11:46 – Where Kurt was when the chain split
1:16:47 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs
1:21:10 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's defense
1:24:17 – Who invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool
1:31:41 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks
1:33:05 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot
1:37:04 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug
1:39:16 – The poker client and marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1
1:41:48 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference
1:47:39 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV
1:48:05 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks
1:51:03 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback
1:55:33 – The white paper's immutability clause vs DAR
2:03:55 – Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario
2:08:33 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works
2:11:56 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi?
2:15:36 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy, and the Satoshi writing style
2:23:28 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives
2:27:50 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address
2:32:00 – Bitcoin as an American project
2:35:32 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show
2:36:29 – If Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers?
2:44:57 – The Arnhem 2017 speech
2:50:56 – Craig's neurodivergence and the villain arc
2:59:23 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony
3:04:58 – The rental Lamborghini and the pattern of bending truth
3:12:31 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations
3:14:04 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright?
3:19:24 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated
3:20:44 – The giveaway reveal: the number is 40
3:22:24 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died?
3:24:46 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer
3:26:43 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity
3:29:01 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce
3:32:00 – The Epstein money vindication
3:35:12 – Kurt's plugs: Gorilla Pool, kurtwuckertjr.com, bopen.ai
3:36:12 – Vlad's promise: this episode goes on the BSV blockchain
3:38:00 – The Mike Hearn introduction request
3:38:15 – Outro and sponsor thanks
