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Risks of Mining Pool Centralization | Jimmy Song, Center of Hash E008

Jimmy Song, author of Programming Bitcoin, discusses the importance of more miners participating directly in the peer-to-peer network and the risks of bitcoin mining pool centralization, including how centralization in mining pools could enable censorship of bitcoin transactions and how it might also enable changes to the network’s rules that would otherwise be far more difficult, ranging from scenarios that cover mempool policy (e.g. OP Return filter) as well as consensus changes, in both softfork and hardfork scenarios.

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  #689: Q3 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis

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  #688: The Housing Crisis Neither Party Wants to Solve with Mark Mitchell

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  #687: How Fiat Money Exploits the Working Class with Erik Cason

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  #686: Living on a Bitcoin Standard in 2026 with Steve Lee

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  #685: Why Bitcoin Policy Activism Matters Now with Kyle Olney

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  #684: Bringing Bitcoin to Every Square Seller in America with Miles Suter

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  #683: Bitcoin in the Age of AI and Abundance with Jordi Visser

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  #682: Why Assault Weapons Bans Don't Work with John Lott

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  #681: The Health Insurance Death Spiral Is Here with Andy Schoonover

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  #680: Fighting for Bitcoin Policy in Washington DC with Conner Brown

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  #679: Why Central Banks Are Panic Buying Gold at Any Price with Gary Brode

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  #678: Building Privacy-First AI in an Age of Surveillance with Mark Suman

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  #677: How Bitfury Survived the Early Bitcoin Wars with George Kikvadze & B…

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  #676: Building the First Bitcoin-Focused SPAC on NASDAQ with Andrew Hohns …

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  #675: Why Multi-Sig Bitcoin Beats All Other Assets with Peter Dunworth

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  674: How Hedge Funds Became America's Largest Creditor with Infranomics