Consensus is Chaotic

May 30, 2024

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Bitcoin Developer PortlandHODL rips 4meggers on the regular, but how does all this stuff work under the hood? Portland explains how he built Slipstream for Marathon Digital, how he reorged Testnetv4 TWICE, and what exactly “Mempool Relay Policy” is.

Charlie & Portland cover many Bitcoin topics in this 2 hour episode – Soft Forks, explaining Bitcoin with analogies, and how Bitcoin has been used over the past 15 years.

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