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Bitcoin Has Stockholm Syndrome

Jun 18, 2025

Bitcoin Has Stockholm Syndrome

Bitcoin Has Stockholm Syndrome
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Jeremy Rubin joins us to talk about his secretive Miami Bitcoin office building Polybeam bridge and a Bitcoin staking platform, his controversial ideas for redesigning Bitcoin script entirely using RISC-V instead of the current "crappy programming language," his CTV endorsement process and why CAT proposals fell short, plus his theory on optimal soft fork activation timing to avoid holidays and summer vacations.

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Notes:

• Building Bitcoin staking platform into core client

• Polybeam bridge connects Bitcoin to StarkNet

• CTV endorsement process received few submissions

• Recommends 10 megabytes memory for new script

• Early November best time for soft fork activation

• In-person work more effective than remote

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:47 Working from home

03:17 Jeremy's secret project

04:25 Polybeam

05:35 Char & Bitcoin staking

07:19 Staking within the client

10:05 Whiteboarding at OP_NEXT

11:54 64 byte transactions

22:12 Redesigning bitcoin script

28:52 Drama & Kanye

30:55 CTV

37:34 Softfork activation (the human version)

46:01 Best day of life

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