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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Episodes

This Bitcoin Season 2 is metrics heavy, with declining Bitcoin on-chain activity, leveraged ordinals, and builders keep on building.
Jul 16, 2024
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
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
Bitcoin is crashing (so are Runes & Ordinals). We assess the damage! Also, Programmable Runes & MTGox unlock?
Jun 24, 2024
Jun 20, 2024
ETH NFTs down to 4,000 daily active users, are Bitcoin L2s actually worthwhile? And Saylor buys $500 million BTC!
Jun 17, 2024
Runemaster Leonidas says it's time for memecoins to come home to Bitcoin and explains why DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON should be the #1 dog coin everywhere.
Jun 12, 2024
OKX burns millions in fees and BRC20s make an unexpected return! This week we have a metrics-heavy Bitcoin ecosystem review
Jun 11, 2024