Jeff Garzik was one of Bitcoin's first core developers. He emailed patches directly to Satoshi, helped build the foundational software Bitcoin still runs on, and bought the domain that became BitcoinTalk.org. Now he's building Hemi — a Bitcoin-secured L2 — and he has a message for every Bitcoin treasury company: you're leaving money on the table.
He covers the Great Slashdotting of July 2010, why the white paper almost didn't matter without the code, the early fear of being arrested for open source development, why 99% of crypto going to zero is actually great news, what Hemi is and why Bitcoin programmability has existed since the genesis block, the De-Genslerification that unlocked institutional Bitcoin, and why yield is the missing step every treasury company is skipping.
Follow Jeff: https://twitter.com/@jgarzik Learn more: https://hemi.xyz
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Cold Open
00:55 Bitcoin's Exciting Earliest Days
10:03 The Excitement of Early Bitcoin Days
15:58 Bitcoin Can't Be Stopped
21:50 Darwinian Competition In Crypto
28:02 Understanding Hemi: A New Layer for Bitcoin
38:30 Treasury Companies Are Missing Yield Opportunity
46:15 Is Centralization A Concern?
50:50 Stay Orange
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