Podcasts: INTERVIEW: How Miners Should Think About Ordinals With Mike Hamilton 🔗 15 weeks ago
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- Category: Podcasts | Compass Podcast | Bitcoin Mining News
- Author(s): Blockspace Media
- Published: 28th May 2024 12:00
Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April.
Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.”
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:55 Mike intro
00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?
00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker
00:15:01 Building Runes tools
00:19:24 Airdropping
00:23:54 Miners learning Runes
00:26:38 Managing UTXOs
00:32:17 Including Runes in business model
00:34:26 Block templates
00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi
00:40:16 Fix the filters?
00:42:35 Mutable Trees
00:48:34 OP_CAT
00:52:07 Miners & soft forks
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