All Episodes

THE Bitcoin Podcast

Everything You Don't Understand About Bitcoin Development - MURCH (THE Bitcoin Podcast)

By Walker America

Aired Sep 8, 2024 · 1h 57m · Last boosted Sep 13, 2024

View Show
Show Notes

"If someone wants to change Bitcoin in a way that is detrimental to even a minority of the Bitcoin users, they're probably going to be unsuccessful because there's going to be vehement pushback." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with MURCH. Murch is a computer scientist, engineer at Chaincode labs, co-host of Bitdevs and the Chaincode Podcast, and moderator of the bitcoin stack exchange, answering literally thousands of questions about Bitcoin over the years. Murch and I discuss the Bitcoin development process, changing vs maintaining Bitcoin, ossification, privacy trade-offs, address reuse, and...

Nostr Boost Stats

sats
24k
boosts
6
boosters
6
Other Episodes This Community Boosts Other shows' episodes boosted by people who boosted this episode
Nostr Boosts:67k
oksharpOct 3, 2024
33k
Whoa!
oksharpOct 3, 2024
33k
Epic
VampireMJOct 2, 2024
100
This is an episode with @npub1dg6es53r3… . She is in Israel and this is during the attack. 😳 "Oh! This is one was close! Did you ear it?!" Fuck!! #Bitcoin #Israel #war #podcast
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:3 boosters3 boosts
Nostr Boosts:23k
oksharpSep 7, 2024
22k
Walker McWicked. Or should we say Walker McLovin? Ascending. Lovin my daily DCA, happy with the price action allowing us to accumulate these cheap sats.
VampireMJSep 5, 2024
100
Nice episode! #bitcoin #DCA
300
⚡️🫡👍🏻
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:3 boosters3 boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.1k
500
⚡️⚡️👍🏻🫡
500
Awesome discussion of privacy. Are most of us sleepwalking into a privacy-compromised centrally controlled bitcoin world? Answer: yes☹️
VampireMJSep 10, 2024
100
If incentives alone aren't enough, #bitcoin was doomed to fail from day 1. That said, I strongly believe in bitcoin incentives. #BitcoinMining
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:700
500
I'm just upset, as an elderly super-boomer, that there is so little I understand. Lots of interesting stuff in here though.
100
easy for Bitkey to not show seeds by default, but allow you to access them behind a scary advanced user don’t give this to anyone for any reason warning. Just refusing to provide any seed access at all is disappointing.
100
👍🏻🫡
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:700
PaulAllenSep 29, 2024
100
.
500
⚡️⚡️⚡️🫡
VampireMJSep 28, 2024
100
Nice episode. As usual.
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:300
100
If it doesn’t have in app unilateral exit, it’s custodial, period. This is not negotiable. If something is not implemented then it simply doesn’t exist for the average user. 99.99999% of Spark users don’t even know a CLI app exists let alone how to use it. Without local caching and unilateral exit actually implemented in the app and having hard dependency on operator cooperation to exit then it’s custodial. Listen I actually like Spark and think it makes reasonable tradeoffs in a world without covenants, but as it stands it’s a custodial product. Happy to revise this once we see an actual implementation of unilateral exit and more operators and LSPs, but it’s just the honest reality today.
100
If it doesn’t have in app unilateral exit, it’s custodial, period. This is not negotiable. If something is not implemented then it simply doesn’t exist for the average user. 99.99999% of Spark users don’t even know a CLI app exists let alone how to use it. Without local caching and unilateral exit actually implemented in the app and having hard dependency on operator cooperation to exit then it’s custodial. Listen I actually like Spark and think it makes reasonable tradeoffs in a world without covenants, but as it stands it’s a custodial product. Happy to revise this once we see an actual implementation of unilateral exit and more operators and LSPs, but it’s just the honest reality today.
100
👍🏻🫡👍🏻
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:300
100
Wore the “Bugle News” red shirt in Vegas
100
Hugs are underrated
100
Next year hug inbound!!
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:300
100
When details on the Sasha Vegas run?
100
Is my fountain subscriber working now?
100
👍🏻👍🏻🫡
See all boosts
Feb 25, 2026
Nostr Boosts:300
100
Flair espresso maker is a manual plastic free(in brewing chamber, not overall) and sub $400 option. Great shots and durable af
100
Need that Vegas event to happen again this year
100
👍🏻👍🏻🫡
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:300
100
2026 prediction: in 2025 Mike Brock was only teetering. 2026 will bring his real crash out.
100
BANGER
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🧡
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:300
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
100
Quantum is a fake and gay VC scam until it can factor a random three digit integer. Until then my young kids are smarter.
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:78k
oksharpOct 15, 2024
78k
One final shill for TABConf 6 - in one week - October 23 - 26, 2024. Atlanta, Georgia. Those not attending Plan B should attend Plan A… (TL). TABConf.com Shout out to Michael Tidwell, and the sponsors including Spiral, River, and Unchained, ZBD, HRF, and the others. And if you never heard of the Capture the Bitcoin scavenger hunt, search YouTube for “Capture the Bitcoin Challenge Review - TABConf 2021”, seventeen minutes of rabbit hole you will never get back. IYKYK, PaL, SHSS,
500
Mi familia
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:2 boosters2 boosts
Nostr Boosts:34k
oksharpOct 5, 2024
33k
Two more weeks and we’ll see the freaks for Plan A, TABConf, The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference. October 23-26, www.TABConf.com, high signal, low stress. PaL, SHSS
500
⚡️⚡️🔥🔥
See all boosts
Sep 19, 2024
Nostr Boosts:34k
oksharpSep 23, 2024
33k
Only four weeks until Plan A(TL) otherwise known as TABConf, The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference. October 23-26. Meet and hear from shadowy super coder devs. A technical bitcoin conference that is pleb friendly. PaL, SHSS.
500
Don’t sleep on Liana
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:34k
oksharpSep 6, 2024
33k
PaL = Peace and Love! IYKYN. Weird that last week Fountain doxxed my full name instead of screen name, no worries I’m fully doxxed anyway, probably something with the new Nostr integration which is awesome. Shout out to ATL BitLab, hosting ATL BitDevs and ATL BitPlebs meetups most Wednesday evenings 6-8pm right on the Atlanta Beltline. SHSS
500
⚡️⚡️⚡️🫡👍🏻 Bitcoin will fail because they’ll ban the apps, oh no!!?1?
See all boosts
Aug 30, 2024
Nostr Boosts:34k
oksharpSep 2, 2024
33k
PaL, SHaSS. Only 7 weeks remain until TABConf, The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference, October 23-26., TABConf.com, a technical bitcoin conference that is pleb friendly. When the shit goes over your head, you still receive a great sense of comfort that really smart people are building, collaborating and contributing.
200
🫡👍🏻
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:2 boosters2 boosts
Nostr Boosts:34k
oksharpAug 31, 2024
33k
Never heard of Kelly Slater
200
👍🏻🫡
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:22k
oksharpJul 4, 2025
21k
Time to shill TABConf again. October 13-16. Builder / Developer content, pleb friendly. TABConf.com see you in Atlanta. SHSS, PaL
300
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:21k
oksharpJul 14, 2026
21k
Awesome rip. Introduced to NoGood from his 2022 art for TABConf.
100
Love nogood 👍🏻🫡
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:21k
oksharpSep 25, 2025
21k
Save the Date, Tuesday October 14, standby for Zaprite ticket link, ATL BTC MeatUp (m-e-a-t) dinner at Fogo de Chao, a satellite event of TABConf, the Atlanta Bitcoin Conference.
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
See all boosts
Feb 9, 2026
Nostr Boosts:21k
oksharpFeb 10, 2026
21k
Cool to dive down the OpenClaw rabbit hole during the bear. Also, first shill for TABConf
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:3.8k
PaulAllenSep 5, 2024
427
.
oksharpSep 4, 2024
3.3k
Walker. Good interview. He’s a little tangential and I don’t understand about a quarter of what he’s talking about but.. good.
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:1 booster2 boosts
Nostr Boosts:2k
PaulAllenSep 13, 2024
1k
'Orange people' are about to become the new 'colored people'. This reminds me of something I heard Russell Means say some years back: "Welcome to the Reservation, we are all Indians now."
PaulAllenSep 12, 2024
1k
Re: Don't use the n-word in mixed company... Influential white folks should probably play it safe and assume Siri and Alexa (NSA) are non-white 🤣
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:2 boosters2 boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.5k
PaulAllenSep 25, 2024
1k
.
500
Regulation is designed to kill small businesses, protect large businesses, and destroy innovation. This is the direct goal of government bureaucrats.
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.5k
500
🔥🫡👍🏻⚡️🔥
PaulAllenSep 22, 2024
1k
It's cool that Amethyst is embracing #V4V
See all boosts
Untitled episode
Nostr Stats:1 booster2 boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.5k
PaulAllenSep 19, 2024
500
Is this that Mandela effect? Seems like we all remember the Reagan assassination attempt as happening a couple years after he took office but Wikipedia says it happened 3/30/81 like two months into his presidency.
PaulAllenSep 18, 2024
1k
Zelensky sounds like Tattoo from Fantasy Island? I was thinking Froggy from Little Rascals.
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.1k
1k
Continued love from the Seattle crew
100
Great rip!! 🫡👍🏻
See all boosts
Feb 21, 2026
Nostr Boosts:1.1k
1k
Mid and upper models of Flair Espresso maker are plastic free in the brewing areas and around $400-500. Tradeoff is it’s manual but that is just more proof of work. Pair with a metal hot water kettle and you’re all set.
100
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
See all boosts
Nostr Boosts:1.1k
Great vibes
100
👍🏻👍🏻💯
See all boosts
May 27, 2025
Nostr Boosts:1.1k
PaulAllenMay 30, 2025
1k
KYRA'S MOM DIED IN 2003 AND HER DAD DIED IN 2018. KEVIN'S MOM DIED IN 1991 AND DAD DIED IN 2005. EXACTLY WHOSE PARENT'S SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS IS SHE WORRIED ABOUT TRUMP CUTTING?!
PaulAllenMay 29, 2025
100
See all boosts

Nostr Community

Everyone who has boosted Everything You Don't Understand About Bitcoin Development - MURCH (THE Bitcoin Podcast) on Nostr, ranked by sats sent, all time.

  1. Keith Sharp 22k sats
  2. Rog @ SC Bitcoin ⚡UK 500 sats
  3. btconboard #LNHANCE or #CTV 500 sats
  4. Paul Allen 460 sats
  5. VampireMJ 100 sats
  1. Marsian 100 sats

Episode Boosts

Every boost sent to this episode, as published to Nostr, newest first.

  • 500 via Fountain
    Developments explained which most bitcoiners don't understand, but gain second hand opinions on X. Brilliant episode.
  • 22,222 via Fountain
    Always glad to see Murch at TABConf, coming up October 23-26, www.tabconf.com, make it your Plan A.
  • 100 via Fountain
    Now you will
  • 100 via Fountain
    This an important topic for people like me. I'm wondering why we need development when #bitcoin protocol works just fine.