Why We Must Upgrade Bitcoin with Vortex

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“We only get this one chance…with Bitcoin to change money for the world, and if we don’t continue to upgrade it then it will simply create another elite.”
— Vortex

Vortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at the blocksize wars, talk about the challenges upgrading Bitcoin, the dangers of ossification and get into covenants and LNHance.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:11:37 Blocksize wars background
00:19:49 NYA; Segwit; lessons learned
00:26:29 Danger of ossification
00:37:08 Covenants & LNHance
00:44:52 Adding covenants to Bitcoin
00:52:56 Competing scaling proposals

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