Bitcoin’s Economic Incentives with Parker Lewis

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“Changes to Bitcoin that are voluntary become…the most logical thing to cause some existential problem that wasn’t foreseen.”
— Parker Lewis

Parker Lewis is a Bitcoin writer and educator and Head of Business Development at Zaprite. In this interview, we discuss scaling self-sovereignty vs sound money, code-changes, covenants, and risks in the regulatory, ETF, mining, and social layers.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Saylor, scaling, dev funding, & incentives
00:12:59 ETF concentration/co-option risk
00:22:57 Developer control, changes, covenants, & consensus
00:38:29 Sound money vs self sovereignty
00:51:51 Entrepreneurs drive change
01:05:26 Regulatory risk; miner centralization
01:21:10 Bitcoin incentive & social layer risks?

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