Muneeb Ali joins us to discuss how Stacks is bringing DeFi to Bitcoin. We cover Stacks design, the Bitcoin DeFi thesis, L2 security guarantees, Stacks' recent implementation bug and more!

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss Aave's GHO, TradFi announcements, Optimism's Bedrock, Frax governance shenanigans and BitDAO.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:55) Hot Seat/Cool Throne
(27:19) Interview Start: Stacks
(42:22) The Proof-of-Transfer Mechanism
(46:55) The Nakamoto Release: A Security Budget Upgrade
(53:21) The Bitcoin DeFi Thesis
(57:49) Bitcoin Subnets
(1:01:10) The “Stack Increase” Bug
(1:17:15) Bitcoin MEV and Censorship
(1:25:03) Increasing Miner Competition
(1:28:37) Reorg Concerns and Orphan Blocks
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Resources:
Stacks
https://www.stacks.co/

Stacks Roadblocks (Blockworks Research Twitter thread)
https://twitter.com/blockworksres/status/1659228801384194049
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