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Episode 101: The COLDCARD Hack

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Emergency broadcast: COLDCARD vulnerability

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Episode 100: Bitcoin Core 31

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Episode 99: Bitcoin Core 30

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Episode 98: Return of the OP_RETURN

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Episode 97: Bitcoin Core 29

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Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update

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Episode 95: Bitcoin Core 28

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Episode 94: Silent Payments part 2

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Episode 93: The Great Consensus Cleanup Revival (And an Update on the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet Arrests)

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Episode 92: Bitcoin Core 27.0

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Episode 91: Splicing

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Episode 90: Asynchronous Lightning Payments

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Episode 89: B-money and RPOW

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Episode 88: Hashcash and Bit Gold

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Episode 87: The Block 1,983,702 Problem

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Episode 86: Ocean Tides

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Episode 85: Bitcoin Core 26.0 (And F2Pool’s OFAC Compliant Mining Policy)

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Episode 84: Marathon Pool’s Invalid Block (And Some Updates About the Show)

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Episode 83: The Milk Sad Vulnerability

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Episode 82: Scaling to Billions of Users

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Episode 81: Bitcoin Core 25.0

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Episode 80: Stratum V2

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Bitcoin, Explained 79: The Witness Discount

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Episode 78: Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) (And Dutch Auctions)

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Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption

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Bitcoin, Explained 76: Stamps (And the Invalid Block Caused by It)

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Bitcoin, Explained 75: Multisig (And Musig)

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Bitcoin, Explained 74: P2SH

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Bitcoin, Explained 73: OP_VAULT

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Bitcoin, Explained 72: Inscriptions

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Bitcoin, Explained 71: Timelocks

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Bitcoin Explained 70: Bitcoin Core v24 Bug

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Bitcoin, Explained 69: The Tornado Cash Trial

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Bitcoin, Explained 68: RBF In Bitcoin Core 24.0

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Bitcoin, Explained 67: Insights From the 4th Largest Lightning Network Node

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Bitcoin, Explained 66: The BTCD Bug That Brought Down LND Nodes

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Bitcoin, Explained 65: Bitcoin Core 24.0

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Bitcoin, Explained 64: HD Wallets, Mnemonic codes and SeedQR

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Bitcoin, Explained 63: The Bitcoin Core development process

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Bitcoin, Explained 62: Hash functions

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OP RETURN Wars - Episode 61

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Reusing addresses and the Hertzbleed attack - Episode 60

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Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked? - Episode 59

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Silent Payments - Episode 58

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URSFs (User Rejected Soft Forks) - Episode 57

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Bitcoin Core 23.0 - Episode 56

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Syncing Old Bitcoin nodes - Episode 55

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Burying Soft Forks - Episode 54

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Discreet Log Contracts - Episode 53

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Federated Ecash - Episode 52

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Compact Blocks - Episode 51

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Death To The Mempool, Long Live The Mempool - Episode 50

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The Fake Peers Attack! - Episode 49

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Lightning Network Upgrades (Eltoo + SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT) with Christian Decker - Episode 48

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Lightning Network Channel Payments with Rene Pickhardt - Episode 47

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A First Look at the Chivo App - Episode 46

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Bitcoin Core 22.0 Explained - Episode 45

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Basis of Lightning Technology 12 - NADO 44

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Hardware Wallets and Blockstream’s Jade wallet - NADO 43

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The Bitcoin Beach Wallet - NADO 42 (Bitcoin Beach Special)

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Lightning Network Routing - NADO 41

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Taproot Lock-in - NADO 40

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How the Bitcoin Improvement Process Works - NADO 39

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Replace-by-Fee Bug - NADO 38

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Mara Pool and Mining Censorship - NADO 37

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Taproot Activation Update: Speedy Trial And The LOT=True Client - NADO 36

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SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo - NADO 35

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Scaling Bitcoin With The Erlay Protocol - NADO 34

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Explaining RGB Tokens - NADO 33

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Segregated Witness (SegWit) - NADO 32

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Taproot Activation with Speedy Trial - NADO 31

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Hardware Wallet Integration in Bitcoin Core and HWI - NADO 30

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Explaining Taproot Activation and LOT=True VS LOT=False - NADO 29

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Explaining Bitcoin Addresses - NADO 28

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Softchains — NADO 27

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Replace By Fee (RBF) — NADO 26

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Compact Client Side Filtering (Neutrino) — The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado 25

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Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 — NADO 24

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Drivechain — NADO 23

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The Lightning Network Basics — NADO 22

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Why Open Source Matters for Bitcoin - NADO 21

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RSK, federated sidechains and Powpeg - NADO 20

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Mempools, Child Pays for Parent, and Package Relay - NADO 19

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Erebus Attacks and how to stop them with ASMAP - NADO 18

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Bitcoin Eclipse Attacks And How To Stop Them - NADO 17

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Open Timestamps - NADO 16

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Utreexo w/ Ruben Somsen - NADO 15

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Headers First, Assume Valid and Assume UTXO - NADO 14

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Bitcoin Core 0.21 supports Tor v3 - NADO 13

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The Perpetual One-Way Peg - NADO 12

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Accounts for Bitcoin, Easypaysy! - NADO 11

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Explaining Signet - NADO 10

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Schnorr Signatures and Libsec256k1 - NADO 9

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Statechains w/ Ruben Somsen - NADO 8

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What is an XPub? - NADO 7

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Payment Pools and Taproot - NADO 6

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The Time-warp Soft Fork & Bitcoin Cash's Difficulty Adjustment Drama - NADO 5

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What is Miniscript - NADO 4

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Breaking Down Taproot Activation Options - NADO 3