A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead at Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining pool centralisation and what is driving it.

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I do struggle with this topic in Bitcoin. I am on the ossification side but I do understand the points brought by the developers of code themselves. I think in general everybody agrees that updates will need to be made, I just see a lot of eagerness and push to release new code into Bitcoin, and it needs to be acknowledged that that can be dangerous (same as not putting code). Maybe the way that code is pushed to Bitcoin stops being done as it was previously done and it takes slower approach. Not ossification but code development time preference x)
Listen to @moneyball and reject ossification
Stephan Livera's avatar Stephan Livera
A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead at Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining pool centralisation and what is driving it.
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