Renaud Cuny joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about measuring the monetary health of the Bitcoin network through hard data, from the percentage of block space consumed by spam to the concentration of mining pools and hardware manufacturers. He walks through his Bitcoin Portal project, which scores decentralization and security across mining, block space, and node diversity, and explains why direction matters more than any single number. The conversation digs into BIP-110, the OP_RETURN debate, Bitcoin Knots adoption, hash renting through Ocean and Datum, and what self-custody and node-running mean for keeping Bitcoin sound money.

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00:00 Introduction to Renaud and His Journey into Bitcoin
03:10 The Bitcoin Portal
10:33 The Concept of Bitcoin Monetary Health
14:33 Diving into the Bitcoin Portal's Scoring System
17:08 Analyzing Mining Decentralization and Security
20:00 Block Space Health and Its Implications
29:52 Analyzing UTXO Trends and Large Upturns
34:29 The Impact of Data on Bitcoin's Blockchain
39:15 BIP-110
52:29 Wrapping Up