Matthew Kratter joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about the escalating fight against spam on Bitcoin, why he believes Bitcoin Core has been compromised, and how the pleb migration to Bitcoin Knots has gone from 1% to 25% of the network in under two years. Kratter walks through the case for BIP-110 as a temporary soft fork, explains why mining pool centralization is the structural problem underneath everything else, and shares his own setup for renting hashrate at industrial scale from home using Datum Gateway and Ocean. The conversation also covers the rotting culture inside Bitcoin Core, why slaying our heroes still matters when figures like Adam Back behave erratically, and what self-custody, sound money, and Bitcoin sovereignty actually demand from us when the protocol itself is under cultural attack.

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00:00 Welcoming Matthew Kratter
01:34 Matthew's Journey: From Academia to Bitcoin
08:18 René Girard
12:53 Scapegoating and Group Dynamics in Human Behavior
17:16 The Interdisciplinary Nature of Bitcoin
18:55 Communicating Across Divides
28:49 The Impact of Spam
34:55 Citrea and OP_RETURN
38:38 The Impact of Mining Centralization
43:43 BIP-110
49:13 The Cultural Importance of Resisting Spam
53:22 Wokeness in Bitcoin Core Development
59:56 The Need for Diverse Perspectives in Bitcoin
01:02:32 The Future of Bitcoin
01:04:36 Reactions to Investigation
01:10:16 Renting Hashrate
01:17:41 Wrapping Up