#439: Mining, Memes and Meetups with Thomas Pacchia

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Aug 8, 2023 · 1h 54m

Marty sits down with Thomas Pacchia for a chat before the pubkey mining meetup.

Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpacchia

Pubkey: https://pubkey.bar/

5:30 - Is DeFi borked?

11:13 - Blockspace scarcity

21:56 - Will shitcoin cycles continue?

28:42 - No soft landing

32:01 - Large scale investors

42:27 - Mining meetup

53:06 - What drives hashrate growth from here?

58:18 - Treasury management

1:00:55 - Pool monetization

1:09:51 - Scammers and hamsters

1:12:48 - NYC Bitcoin makes Marty bullish

1:23:05 - Memes and NFTs

1:28:58 - Derailment and riffing

1:36:29 - Bitcoin conferences and new…