BIP-444: Bet Against the Fork to Print Bitcoin | Roundup

In this episode, we dive into the escalating Bitcoin civil war over BIP-444 — the proposed “emergency soft fork” to limit arbitrary data onchain. The panel debates “pleb slop” culture, anti-core developer sentiment, and whether the community is repeating the moral crusades of the Blocksize Wars. We also dissect miner incentives, exploiting user-activated vs. user-rejected forks, property-rights implications, and prediction markets tracking whether the fork will ever activate. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Debating “Pleb Slop” and Core Values
07:39 Developers, Consensus, and the Community Divide
15:49 Fork Proposals and the Governance Dilemma
21:17 Soft Forks, User Action, and Network Power
37:54 Game Theory: Block Invalidation and Chain Reorgs
41:26 Prediction Markets, Fork Futures, and Incentives
46:26 Economic Voting and Miner Power Dynamics
51:21 Censorship, Property Rights, and Bitcoin Core’s Role
01:05:01 Fork Scenarios and the Future of Bitcoin
01:06:30 Final Thoughts
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