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Josh discusses Bitcoin Core governance and alternative node implementations on the Bitcoin Infinity Show.

Josh, AKA Secure Sovereign, joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin Core governance, the case for alternative node implementations, and Bitcoin Commons, a new Rust implementation he says specifies and locks down Bitcoin consensus while making it far easier to fork and run your own node. Josh recovered a life-changing stack of Bitcoin he had held since 2010, then turned to analyzing Bitcoin Core as an informal oligarchy, running a full-chain analysis of BIP-110 across more than 900,000 blocks and building selective synchronization so node runners can skip non-monetary data. The conversation covers self-custody, consensus specification, mining decentralization, the spam debate, and a commons-based governance model drawn from Ostrom and the Hanseatic League aimed at keeping Bitcoin sound money. Connect with Secure Sovereign: https://x.com/secsovereign Connect with Us: https://www.bitcoininfinityshow.com/ https://bitcoininfinitystore.com https://primal.net/infinity https://primal.net/knut https://primal.net/luke https://twitter.com/BtcInfinityShow https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm https://twitter.com/lukedewolf Thanks to our sponsors - check out their websites for info…

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