Bob Burnett joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about life after BIP-110, from mining the very first BIP-110 signaling block with Barefoot Mining to why he stepped back in June and why he sees no path to success for the Blake2b fork. As Ocean's newly elected chairman, Bob explains why most big Bitcoin miners never seriously considered the soft fork, how FPPS mining pools trade a slice of revenue for predictability compared to TIDES, and why hashrate is shifting from public mining companies toward smaller independent miners using DATUM. Knut and Bob also dig into capping the SegWit discount to fight spam, the difference between miners and hashers, and what corporations might look like on a Bitcoin standard.

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00:00 Introduction and guest introductions
03:12 Core v30 & BIP 110
04:16 Backing BIP 110
09:47 Why Support Faded
11:24 Nodes, Soft Forks & Incentives
16:39 Hashers, Risk & Mining
22:00 Public Miners and AI
30:22 The Fork's Future
31:57 Fanaticism & Forks
39:18 Governance, Spam & Fees
46:54 Ocean, Datum & Autonomy
51:41 Who Defines Bitcoin?
01:00:33 Institutional Bitcoin
01:09:14 A Bitcoin Standard
01:19:57 FPPS & Mining Risk