Bitcoin Season 2

We explore the edges of blockspace, from Ordinals to Layer 2s and back. Join host Charlie Spears for weekly interviews and livestreams on Bitcoin’s frontier.

Meet the Host

Charlie Spears

Charlie is co-founder of Blockspace Media, in addition to host of Bitcoin Season 2. His work in Bitcoin has spanned ASIC mining to Ordinals degening.

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The Mining Pod

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The Gwart Show

Gwart asks the hard questions to Crypto Twitter’s most colorful characters. Long form weekly episodes with voices from across the crypto-spectrum to answer one simple question: where’s the yield?

Episodes

Leverage vs Builders

This Bitcoin Season 2 is metrics heavy, with declining Bitcoin on-chain activity, leveraged ordinals, and builders keep on building.

Jul 16, 2024

Bitcoin Miner Capitulation & UNCOMMON GOODS

Jul 08, 2024

Bitcoin L2 Roadmaps

Let's review the current state of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions, using "Layer 2" as a broad term encompassing various Bitcoin abstractions, sidechains, security protocols, federations, and state channels.

Jul 02, 2024

The Future of Fees on Bitcoin

Leo Zhang, founder of Alkimiya discusses the emerging phenomenon of commoditization of Bitcoin blockspace and drawing parallels to Ethereum. Leo notes that as more sophisticated activities occur on Bitcoin, such as mempool sniping and replace-by-fee (RBF) transactions, it can create negative externalities, but that as Bitcoin's fee market matures those negatives can be reduced for the end user.

Jun 27, 2024