How $MSTR Might Collapse, Bitcoin Integer Base, Core Dev Politics, Tether Growth - John Carvalho

John Cavallo (Johntron) dives into Bitcoin's fundamental integer-based nature and the misconceptions around decimal places and Millisats. The conversation spans from his controversial BIP proposal to the risks of government digital IDs and his work on PubKey's DNS-based identity solution. Through Synonym's Atomic Economy vision, John explains how PubKey's innovative approach to digital identity and semantic social graphs could provide alternatives to centralized control, while sharing insights on Bitcoin Core development politics and MicroStrategy's position in the market.

John on X: https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog
Synonym: https://synonym.to/

0:00 - Intro

0:40 - John's BIP

10:20 - Millisats

14:34 - Unchained

15:34 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc

22:34 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus

36:57 - Zaprite & SOTE

38:30 - Pubky

45:25 - Government digital ID

54:14 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky

1:00:04 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution

1:03:17 - Atomic Economy

1:08:12 - Tether

1:12:19 - Bitfinex stolen coins

1:14:17 - MSTR

1:21:24 - Core dev incentives

1:25:43 - John's hot take history

1:29:33 - Bluesky culture

1:33:19 - Giving people what they don't know they want

1:35:56 - Wrapup

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