How $MSTR Might Collapse, Bitcoin Integer Base, Core Dev Politics, Tether Growth - John Carvalho

Show Notes

John Cavallo (Johntron) dives into Bitcoin's fundamental integer-based nature and the misconceptions around decimal places and Millisats. The conversation spans from his controversial BIP proposal to the risks of government digital IDs and his work on PubKey's DNS-based identity solution. Through Synonym's Atomic Economy vision, John explains how PubKey's innovative approach to digital identity and semantic social graphs could provide alternatives to centralized control, while sharing insights on Bitcoin Core development politics and MicroStrategy's position in the market. $MSTR. MSTR. Michael Saylor. John on X: https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog Synonym: https://synonym.to/ 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - John's BIP 10:20 - Millisats 14:34 - Unchained & Fold 15:34 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc 22:34 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus 36:57 - Zaprite & SOTE 38:30 - Pubky 45:25 - Government digital ID 54:14 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky 1:00:04 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution 1:03:17 - Atomic Economy 1:08:12 - Tether 1:12:19 - Bitfinex stolen coins 1:14:17 - MSTR 1:21:24 - Core dev incentives 1:25:43 - John's hot take history 1:29:33 - Bluesky culture 1:33:19 - Giving people what they don't know they want 1:35:56 - Wrapup Shoutout to our sponsors: Bitkey https://bit.ly/TFTCBitkey20 Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Zaprite https://zaprite.com/tftc Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/