Bitcoin’s BRC-20 Mania: Is It Sustainable? – Ep. 493
Ordinal theory has unleashed a new wave of NFTs, memecoins and innovation on Bitcoin — but not without controversy. Bitcoin educator Dan Held and Bitcoin Frontier Fund Managing Partner Trevor Owens join the show to discuss the breakneck rise of BRC-20s and why they’re both bullish on what memecoins mean for the original blockchain.
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Show highlights:
🔹 what ordinal theory is and how it enabled Bitcoin “NFTs”
🔹 how the Ordinals Protocol differs from the ERC-721 token standard used by many Ethereum NFTs
🔹 how BRC-20s work by relying on some off-chain mechanisms
🔹 why Bitcoin is not a “dinosaur chain,” according to Dan
🔹 why Trevor says BRC-20 memecoins are superior to those on Ethereum
🔹 what the practical utilities of BRC-20s are, if any
🔹 why transaction fees in Bitcoin rose so much and why it’s healthy for the network
🔹 whether innovation is coming back to Bitcoin
🔹 whether Satoshi Nakamoto would have approved of Bitcoin NFTs
🔹 the role of speculation in fueling bitcoin adoption
🔹 the current and future state of layer 2s on Bitcoin
🔹 why Dan says BRC-20s “absolutely” solve the problem with Bitcoin’s security budget
🔹 why it’s hard to determine an “appropriate” amount for the security budget of Bitcoin
🔹 how the NFT market could be shaped after the rise of Ordinals and BRC-20s
🔹 what needs to be developed so that BRC-20s can flourish
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Guests:
🔥 Dan Held, Bitcoin educator and marketing advisor at Trust Machines
🔥 Trevor Owens, managing partner at Bitcoin Frontier Fund
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Ordinals
07:52 BRC-20s
23:36 Bitcoin transaction fees
32:27 Mempool
44:38 Layer 2s
47:27 Bitcoin’s security model
51:32 Market speculation
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