#241: Mining pools, Braidpool, resistance to attacks, adversarial thinking, and dev funding with Bob McElrath

Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss:

- NY BitDevs

- Mining pools

- P2Pool

- Braidpool

- Making decentralized pools viable

- How they may fail

- Adversarial thinking

- Bob's Bitcoin journey

- much more

Follow Bob on Twitter

Bitcoin Munich Meetup Video

Braidpool IRC

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