Unhosted Marcellus joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about how any Bitcoiner can now rent hash power for as little as $1 per day and run their own mining pool through Ocean's Datum Gateway. The conversation covers BIP 110 as a grassroots response to Bitcoin Core's controversial mempool policy changes, the game theory of soft fork activation, and why mining might be the final step in the Bitcoiner sovereignty journey that takes you from holding your keys to running your node to actually directing hash power yourself.

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00:00 Introducing Unhosted Marcellus
03:53 Unhosted Wallets
06:47 Reaction to Core v30
09:50 The Purpose and Impact of BIP 110 Soft Fork
15:07 Money vs Spam
23:33 Mining Hash Power and Pool Mechanics
26:11 Renting Hashrate
33:26 Cost and Profitability of Renting Hash Power
39:31 Making Mining Accessible
45:57 How to Start Renting Hashrate
47:49 Plebs Taking Agency
50:35 Incentives for Miners and Decentralization
56:34 Game Theory and BIP-110 Activation
01:08:47 Mining Centralization
01:10:04 Wrapping Up