In this episode we're joined by Bitcoin Mechanic to talk about how Ocean Mining is revolutionizing the Bitcoin mining pool concept while fighting malicious attacks on Bitcoin through ordinal and inscription spam. 

Key Points Discussed:
🔹 Overview of Ocean Mining Pool's mission
🔹 The growing concern of spam on Bitcoin
🔹 Ethical considerations in Bitcoin mining

What You Will Discover:
🔹 How Ocean Mining is defending Bitcoin from malicious attacks
🔹 Mechanic's insights on mining dynamics
🔹 Future directions for ethical and effective Bitcoin mining practices

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https://ocean.xyz/

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
01:39 Miner Competition Incentives
18:44 FPPS and Mining Pool Payouts
25:13 Being Talked About
28:19 Risk of Mining Centralization
36:13 Wasabi and Censorship
40:05 Ocean and Bitcoin Spam
47:44 The Risk from Ordinals and Inscriptions
58:56 Owning Stars
01:05:21 Satoshis Don't Exist
01:07:51 Scarcity of Block Space
01:12:33 The Attack on Bitcoin
01:16:31 Bitcoin Mechanic's Freedom Footprint 
01:23:35 The Ocean Launch
01:25:48 Ocean.xyz
01:40:02 Wrapping Up

The Freedom Footprint Show is a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf.

In each episode, we explore everything from deep philosophy to practical tools to emit freedom dioxide to expand your freedom footprint.

Join us as we head toward the orange glowing light together!