Merged and Divided
By Chris Fisher
Ep. 60 · Aired Jun 11, 2025 · 1h 2m · Last boosted Jun 14, 2025
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Bitcoin Core merges bold and contentious updates; I get into their reasons why. Plus, Inflation eases for now, but the trend is clear. Why we can expect higher for longer. Affiliate LINKS: 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling LINKS: CPI inflation report May 2025: U.S. inflation rises 0.1% Here's the inflation breakdown...
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6100 for 61! Since Jack Dorsey gets to rename bitcoin denominations I will call this "61 centi-sats." Also, this week's irony: Core merges a highly controversial change blowing up the OP_RETURN limit despite all the NACKs and contention, with no time for consensus either way to form. Then they say this is so that people will stop using the TapRoot/Segwit exploit to do inscriptions and other abuses of the witness dat…
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Personally I'm focused on decentralization of nodes. Anything that diminishes node sovereignty is a departure from Bitcoin. This seems to me what core is doing.
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What are u talking about? Fed isn’t cutting has nothing to do with Tariffs. You sound like CNBC
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Fresh TWiB! My take on why bitcoin core merged that controversial PR we’ve all been talking about… oh, and the CLEAR signal this week that the long term outlook on inflation is higher for a lot longer despite today’s good news.