H4shr8 Crypto Mining Podcast

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat snagging of the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April.  Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.” Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. Chapters: 00:00:00 Start 00:02:55 Mike intro 00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding? 00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker 00:15:01 Building Runes tools 00:19:24 Airdropping 00:23:54 Miners learning Runes 00:26:38 Managing UTXOs 00:32:17 Including Runes in business model 00:34:26 Block templates 00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi 00:40:16 Fix the filters? 00:42:35 Mutable Trees 00:48:34 OP_CAT 00:52:07 Miners & soft forks Published twice weekly, "The Mining