Alejandro De La Torre, VP of Poolin, a large Bitcoin mining pool joins me on the show to chat about his efforts in helping to coordinate Bitcoin Upgrades:

Taproot Activation
Learnings from 2017 SegWit
UASF or MASF (Miner Activated Soft Fork)
UASF within MASF
Distribution of network hashrate
Future Soft Fork upgrades

Alejandro links:

Relevant episodes:

SLP260 Luke Dashjr - How Bitcoin UASF Went Down, Taproot Lot=True, Speedy Trial, Small Blocks
SLP257 Matt Corallo - Bitcoin Soft Form Activation, Taproot, And Playing Chicken
SLP200 Christian Decker - Anyprevout, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin
Hodl Hodl Lend
Compass Mining
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

SLP277 Alejandro De La Torre - Coordinating Bitcoin Upgrades With Mining Pools

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SLP277 Alejandro De La Torre - Coordinating Bitcoin Upgrades With Mining Pools