{"id":1210,"date":"2016-08-03T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2016-08-03T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:12:10","slug":"episode-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #77: Collective Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4556023\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffd300\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 77<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">August 03, 2016 \u2014 104 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Greg Slepak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our guest today is Greg Slepak, Software developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espionageapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Espionage 3<\/a> &amp; founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/okturtles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">okTurtles Foundation<\/a>, who talked about the bitcoin block size debate as surfacing &#8220;politics&#8221; in the bitcoin ecosystem. Resident podcast guest Steven McKie joins us to add &#8216;basic income&#8217; to the mix. Lots of tangents here as important protocol and software development projects require people of disparate views and plans to come together over common standards and code. Good behavior is good politics because it builds credibility. The politics are intense, there are ways that bitcoin governance is like government, and proposals to fork the software are kind of like constitutional amendments. After Greg talked to us, I&#8217;m increasingly comfortable thinking of bitcoin governance as a market phenomenon.\u00a0Greg also delves into the gritty details regarding the recent Ethereum\/Ethereum Classic hardfork shenanigans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Greg Slepak Our guest today is Greg Slepak, Software developer of Espionage 3 &amp; founder of the okTurtles Foundation, who talked about the bitcoin block size debate as surfacing &#8220;politics&#8221; in the bitcoin ecosystem. Resident podcast guest Steven McKie joins us to add &#8216;basic income&#8217; to the mix. Lots of tangents here as important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}