311. TBR - SpiderPool Distributes NAT + Bitcoin | Bitcoin Security Budget Math | NAT Token Value | NAT.fun Launch

About this episode

The episode discusses SpiderPool's distribution of Bitcoin and NAT tokens, Bitcoin's security budget challenges, and the launch of the NAT.fun NFT platform.

In Episode 311 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William and I-man discuss SpiderPool's historic distribution of both Bitcoin and NAT tokens to pool participants, dive deep into the mathematical impossibility of Bitcoin's long-term security budget, and break down why the NAT token is the only viable solution. They also preview the imminent launch of NAT.fun, a new NFT platform built on Bitcoin block production data. Key topics: SpiderPool — the 5th largest Bitcoin miner — officially begins distributing both BTC and NAT to pool participants, marking a historic first and validating months of anticipation Bitcoin's security budget math crisis: why the X-squared price growth requirement is mathematically impossible and what the halving subsidy trajectory means for decentralization by 2140 NAT token as Bitcoin's only viable supplemental subsidy: 60% of global hash power already backing it, and how $1,000/block at $1B market cap reaches fee parity — 1,400x below Bitcoin's current valuation Skeptics and scoffers in the Bitcoin ecosystem — why the CMO of Brains laughed at SpiderPool's announcement and why that pattern of dismissal has a well-documented historical cost in crypto NAT.fun…

People in this episode

Hosts: William, Iman

Topics covered

• Bitcoin distribution
• NAT token
• Bitcoin security budget
• NAT.fun launch
• NFT platform
• quantum computing
• economic attack vectors

Keywords

• SpiderPool
• Bitcoin
• NAT token
• security budget
• NAT.fun
• NFT
• quantum computing
• economic attack

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpiderPool, Bitcoin, NAT, NAT.fun, Brains, Solana

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