S16 E60: Jonathan Bier on Bitcoin Civil Wars & BitMEX Research

Jonathan Bier is the author of the influential best-seller "The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules", as well as one of the most prolific and respected researchers in Bitcoin. He is also an active investor who sits on various company boards and advises projects in the space.

In this episode, we talk about parallels between the Bitcoin scaling debate and the filter wars, but also highlight some debunked Satoshi Nakamoto claims.

Time stamps:
- Introducing Jonathan Bier and Blocksize War Book
- Meeting BitMEX Founders and Starting Research
- Arthur Hayes' Blog Writing and Vision
- BitMEX Success: Leverage, Perpetual Swaps, Troll Box
- FTX Copying BitMEX and Backend Issues
- Binance's Rise and Market Dominance
- BitMEX's Slow Adoption of Stablecoins
- Current BitMEX Volumes and Rankings
- History of Bitcoin Derivatives and Innovations
- Jonathan's First Bitcoin Encounter in 2010
- 2011 Bubble and Mt. Gox Scandal
- Views on Bitcoin Bubbles and Valuations
- Ad: Bitcoin.com News
- Layer 2 Labs Question: Is Lightning a Waste?
- Lightning Network Success and Limitations
- Scaling Challenges and Sidechains
- Current Filter Wars and Ordinals/Inscriptions
- History of Relay Policies and RBF
- OP_RETURN Limits and Debates
- Bitnod.es Website and Node Peers
- Ineffectiveness of Filters
- Super TestNet's Bandwidth Argument
- Generational Crusades in Bitcoin
- London Meetup Stories and Fanaticism
- Loss of Merchants Post-Blocksize War
- Ethereum Benefiting from Bitcoin Decisions
- 2014 OP_RETURN Wars and Counterparty
- Reasons Counterparty Failed
- Mastercoin, First ICO, and Omni/Tether
- Zcash Launch and BitMEX Futures Shenanigans
- Ethereum DevCon 2016 Attack Story
- Conferences Then vs Now
- Cultural Divide in Bitcoin Maxis
- Misconceptions About Bitcoin Core Developers
- Youth of Early Developers Like Tamas
- Criteria for Developers and Unicorn Myth
- Educators in Bitcoin History: From Satoshi to Saylor
- Dumbing Down of Bitcoin Narratives
- Past Idiocy and Learning Curves
- BIP 444 Dangers and Ineffectiveness
- Irony of Anti-Spam Fork and Spam Magnets
- Parallels to Blocksize Wars, Bitcoin Cash Price Peaks
- Excitement and Fear During BCH Surge
- Reasons Big Blockers Couldn't Compete, Craig Wright's Role
- Satoshi's Response to Scaling Concerns (2008)
- Jeff Garzik's Early Block Size Proposal (2010)
- Early Onchain Exchanges and Scaling Realization
- Defining Small Blocker vs Big Blocker
- Surplus Capacity in Blocks Debate
- Cultural Biases: Technical vs Business Sides
- Competent Developers on BCH Side, Inflation Bug
- Block Size Numbers Not the Core Issue
- Modern Block Size Increase Justification
- Hard Forks Unlikely, Quantum Signatures
- James O'Beirne's Block Size Presentation
- Filter Wars Impact on Future Changes
- Spam as Reason Against Block Size Increase
- Quantum Safe Spending Proposal
- Fee Market vs Crusades Against Spam
- Craig Wright's Unintentional Help to Small Blockers
- Jihan Wu's Dislike of Craig Wright
- ASIC Boost Role in BCH Creation
- Covert vs Overt ASIC Boost Explained
- Treasuries and MicroStrategy Debt Structures
- Bitcoin Treasuries vs Ponzi Schemes
- Balancing Professional Life and Cypherpunk Roots
- Advisor Roles: Bitwise, Brink, Maelstrom
- Privacy Tools: Payjoin, Silent Payments, CoinJoin
- Ethereum vs Bitcoin on Privacy Support
- Ross Ulbricht Pardon and Government Misconduct
- Curtis Green's Torture and Fake Death
- Aaron Swartz Comparison
- Cypherpunk Culture Not Scaling
- ETFs as Bitcoin Scaling Layer
- IBIT vs WBTC Similarities
- Three Legit Altcoins: Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin
- Satoshi's Views on Block Sizes
- Closing and Follow Jonathan Bier

S16 E60: Jonathan Bier on Bitcoin Civil Wars & BitMEX Research

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