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since Sept. 1, 2026
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PerkINsights and BitLovin get into the meat of The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier, starting with Bitcoin XT, the proposal from Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen that would have taken the block size from 1 megabyte to 8 and doubled it every two years after that. We look at how a Bitcoin improvement prop…

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Time Preference and the Future of Bitcoin | Bitcoin Node Runner 005 PerkINsights and BitLovin close out the four issues from The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier with the last one: what time preference should the Bitcoin network operate on? We get into what high and low time preference actually mean,…
Do Ordinary Bitcoin Node Runners Actually Matter? | Bitcoin Node Runner 004 PerkINsights and BitLovin take on issue three of The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier: to what extent should the validating nodes of ordinary users have a say in enforcing Bitcoin's protocol rules? Before getting to the book,…
PerkINsights and BitLovin work through issue two of The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier: should the rules of the Bitcoin protocol change relatively easily, or only in exceptional circumstances with broad support from all interested parties? We start with a real Lightning payment that came in at $102…
Episode two of the Bitcoin Node Runner podcast. PerkINsights and BitLovin work through the first of four issues at the center of The Block Size War, the book by Jonathan Bier about the fight over Bitcoin's base layer. We start with a quick recap of the bridge analogy and the three participants in t…
Welcome to the first episode of the Bitcoin Node Runner podcast. PerkINsights and BitLovin are here to make running a full Bitcoin node make sense for regular people. One host asks the 101 questions, the other goes deeper for anyone ready for it. We start with the difference between owning Bitcoin …
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