S17 E17: Lukas Hozda on BIP110, Bitcoin & Rust

Lukas Hozda is the incumbent genius at Braiins mining: the Jack of all trades who's been with the company since he finished high school and can get assigned to any project. He wrote "Programming Bitcoin in Rust" and lately he's scrutinized BIP110.

Time stamps: 00:00:46 – Introducing Lukas Hosoda, author and Rust developer at Braiins

00:03:08 – Discovering Bitcoin at age 12 and mining

00:07:04 – Career at Braiins

00:09:43 – Braiins Office Mining & ASICs

00:13:01 – Braiins Mini Miner (BMM101)

00:15:16 – Drivechains & Sidechains

00:17:49 – Bitcoin News & Braiins Blog

00:19:01 – Braiins HashPower Product

00:21:39 – Mining Decentralization

00:22:51 – Cake Wallet & Zcash Giveaway

00:24:01 – Terraria Plugin Development

00:27:44 – SideShift & Swapping

00:31:11 – Breadwallet & Node Mapping

00:33:38 – Joining Braiins as a Rust Programmer

00:36:06 – Writing the Book "Building Bitcoin in Rust"

00:39:43 – BIP 110/444 Research

00:40:55 – How Bitcoin's Gossip Network Works

00:44:31 – Mempool & Private Transactions

00:45:54 – Marathon Slipstream .

00:47:10 – History of OP_RETURN & Arbitrary Data on Bitcoin

00:51:19 – Spam, Transaction Fees & Block Size

00:55:18 – UTXO Set Growth

00:57:50 – ZK Proofs & Ethereum

00:58:44 – Nostr Community's Emotional Approach to Bitcoin

00:59:28 – Filtering Challenges

01:01:38 – Ordinal Inscriptions & Developer Response

01:02:54 – Mining Pools & Incentives

01:05:31 – Block Subsidy & Layer 2s

01:07:31 – User Growth, Adoption & Institutions

01:11:09 – BIP 444/110 Analysis

01:15:27 – Data Limits & Programming

01:19:09 – Forks & Market Reactions

01:22:58 – Bitcoin’s Core Values

01:25:49 – Node Running Legal Risks & Institutions

01:29:00 – Giveaway & Closing

01:31:26 – Recurring Bitcoin Debates

01:35:06 – Toxicity in Debates

01:36:35 – Epstein Files & Final Thoughts