#439: Mining, Memes and Meetups with Thomas Pacchia
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
August 8, 20231h 54m
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Show Notes
<p>Marty sits down with Thomas Pacchia for a chat before the pubkey mining meetup.</p>
<p>Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpacchia</p>
<p>Pubkey: https://pubkey.bar/</p>
<p>5:30 - Is DeFi borked?<br />
11:13 - Blockspace scarcity<br />
21:56 - Will shitcoin cycles continue?<br />
28:42 - No soft landing<br />
32:01 - Large scale investors<br />
42:27 - Mining meetup<br />
53:06 - What drives hashrate growth from here?<br />
58:18 - Treasury management<br />
1:00:55 - Pool monetization<br />
1:09:51 - Scammers and hamsters<br />
1:12:48 - NYC Bitcoin makes Marty bullish<br />
1:23:05 - Memes and NFTs<br />
1:28:58 - Derailment and riffing<br />
1:36:29 - Bitcoin conferences and new Pubkey locations<br />
1:44:08 - Hex and hardware wallets<br />
1:46:58 - Reminiscing from our prison cells in 2030</p>
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