The Block Runner Crypto Podcast

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The Block Runner is your authentic source for Bitcoin, Ordinals and other cryptocurrency technology, explanations and news. Learn the most optimal strategies to optimize your cryptocurrency knowledge. We’re building a metaverse project that enables creators to build and deploy in multiple virtual worlds using Digital Matter Theory. Join us on our journey from starting a business from nothing to what will amount a multi trillion dollar metaverse industry.

Episodes

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

238. TBR - How $NAT/DMT/NATRIX All Tie Together | Explaining The Vision

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

We receive a very insightful question from somebody who watches this podcast who has been an active participant in the things we have been building. The question focuses on tying together $NAT, Bitmap, NATRIX, DMT NATs and UNATs into a sensible overall understanding how all these creations interplay with each other. We discuss how our thesis of metaverse maximalism has influenced just about everything in relation to what we have been building on Bitcoin. By understanding the economic requirements of the metaverse and the need to introduce digital commodities for the metaverse market on Bitcoin, $NAT and the DMT framework ws built in order to maintain non-arbitrary principles Bitmap introduced for this new asset class. NATs and UNATs all are created through the utilization of Bitcoin block data, thus giving their existence a forever association to Bitcoin as opposed to arbitrary token creations. We describe the NATRIX as the culmination of all these technologies by bringing the DMT commodities market into a composable application environment that can be hosted by Bitmap parcel owners. The real mission to increase interest in metaverse asset ownership and to kickstart a UGC economy that accelerate the proliferation of content and experience for metaverse users. We do so by leveraging $NAT as the face of the ecosystem in order to introduce the principles of DMT in the manner that poses the least friction. With $NAT token interest surging, more will discover all other DMT creation from art to the metaverse. What does this all lead to? Hopefully a metaverse economy with truly unique economic properties related to what makes Bitcoin valuable and in the end onboarding a larger user base to Bitcoin who are less interested in Bitcoin financial application, more so inclined to participate in the nascent metaverse journey.

Topics:

First up, the guys discuss an insightful question from the audience.
Next, guys discuss how their thesis of metaverse maximalism has influenced just about everything in relation to what they have been building on Bitcoin.
and Finally, describe the NATRIX as the culmination of all these technologies by bringing the DMT commodities market into a composable application environment that can be hosted by Bitmap parcel owners.

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Sunday Dec 29, 2024

237. TBR - Reinventing Book Publishing With Ordinals | Interview w/ Jiurn, Founder of Inscripedia

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

We discuss with the creator of Inscripedia everything related to the book publishing industry and how Jiurn is working to build a platform and an inscription standard to address major centralization dilemmas. Through inscriptions details of publications can be stored on Bitcoin in the form of a BRC600k. This enables platforms like Incripedia to reference these inscriptions and properly display the contents in a more readable and user friendly format as opposed to just a blob of text viewable on an explorer. Jiurn strives to create an active market around book publishing and will be demonstrating the product with his upcoming launch of Season 0. This mint will include 5 books from Casey Rodarmor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol. We also discuss with Jiurn the exciting possibilities of leveraging the Inscripedia methods to incorporate books in the metaverse which will allow holders of these mints to flex their collections on a Bitmap.

Topics:

First up, how Jiurn is working to build a platform and an inscription standard to address major centralization dilemmas?
Next, the guys discuss 5 books from Casey Rodarmor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol
and Finally, leveraging the Inscripedia methods to incorporate books in the metaverse which will allow holders of these mints to flex their collections on a Bitmap

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Sunday Dec 29, 2024

236. TBR - Building Ordinal Cults and Killer Narratives w/ Knox, Leader of Skullx Infinite

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

We sit down with the leader of Skullx community, Knox who shares his background with the collection as an early day participant when it was based on Ethereum, to now fully taking over as community lead and bringing the community to Ordinals. We ask what motivated that transition and speak about the opportunities that lie ahead for Ordinals and the Bitcoin ecosystem. Also, we dive deep into the mindset of a community leader attempting to foster a cult like alignment among holders to push a common cause. With memes taking front and center stage for the moment, how can NFT communities achieve the same hive mind effects to achieve greater market heights. We discuss what the upcoming Skullx Infinite collection is all about and how Knox plans to position this collection and community as a force within Ordinals that reflects the positive elements of having a Bitcoin native presence.

Topics:

First up, who is Knox and how did they get into the web3 space?
Next, they guys ask what motivated the transition from working around Ethereum, to bringing the community to Ordinals
and Finally, what the upcoming Skullx Infinite collection is all about and how Knox plans to position this collection and community as a force within Ordinals that reflects the positive elements of having a Bitcoin native presence

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Sunday Dec 29, 2024

235. TBR - Building Unique Bitmap Identity w/ J-Rod & El Trillionaire Founders of Bitmap Studios

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

We sit with the team at Bitmap Studios and discuss all things metaverse on Bitcoin and DMT. Bitmap Studios is launching a new avatar collection called The BitAvatars in a few days (Oct 24th) on Mscribe. This will be a UNAT collection, sharing the same element pattern as Natcats, giving the non-arbitrary supply of 8,064.BitAvatars are unique 3D models with interoperable use cases in mind. Already these avatars will be functional with FOXXI’s Bitverse, Inscribed.Space, and The NATRIX. This focus gives tremendous ability to these avatars and their access to a wider range of experiences for holders. We discuss how Avatars can serve as a killer onboarding vehicle for new users of a Bitmap. We then discuss Bitmap Studios recent developments in the NATRIX which showcase the ability for creators to leverage MML and Bitmap parcels to produce engaging and showcase worthy experiences. We go deep on DMT application within the metaverse economy and highlight how blockdrops are being leveraged to amplify the metaverse economy.

Topics:

First up, the guys sit with the team at Bitmap Studios and discuss all things metaverse on Bitcoin and DMT
Next, what is BitAvatars, and how will it impact the web3 space
and Finally, how Avatars can serve as a killer onboarding vehicle for new users of a Bitmap

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Sunday Dec 29, 2024

234. TBR - Building in the Memecoin Era w/ Francis Dhun, Co-founder of SatsPumpFun

Sunday Dec 29, 2024

Topics:

First up, the guys discuss an insightful question from the audience.
Next, guys discuss how their thesis of metaverse maximalism has influenced just about everything in relation to what they have been building on Bitcoin.
and Finally, describe the NATRIX as the culmination of all these technologies by bringing the DMT commodities market into a composable application environment that can be hosted by Bitmap parcel owners.

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Friday Nov 08, 2024

233. TBR - Bitoshi Blocks Us | Challenging Bitmap “Standards” | LDE Parcel Improvements EXPLAINED

Friday Nov 08, 2024

There has been a lot of drama in the Bitmap community since our NATRIX release. Mostly coming from people who side with Bitoshi’s existing parcel framework which disregards critical ecosystem needs for more efficient parcel distribution. We discuss all the problems with the current parcel standard and Will breaks down exactly how the LDE process solves all of them. With all of this community disagreement between how technical progress should be introduced into the Bitmap ecosystem, we extended an invitation to Bitoshi to have a conversation around these topics, which resulted in him blocking us on X.

We then question the ethos of Bitmap as its original purpose was to be an open metaverse development ecosystem where community developers contribute and have the opportunity to affect technical outcomes for the betterment of creators and users. However, with recent actions from Bitoshi, it seems to be there is an attempt to create a singular pathway for developers which can only originate from Bitoshi’s self appointed lens of authority. We disagree with this position and through our technical delivery of an improved parceling method, we are challenging the existing standard and point to how this is how ecosystems should evolve, similarly to how parent-child was adopted into the Ordinals protocol through community effort due to its provenance improvements.

Ultimately we continue to build out our technologies and frameworks to support developers and creators who want to make a real impact for the metaverse on Bitcoin. With this giving access to these tools for all Bitmap owners to utilize, giving them the ability to create value out of their Bitmaps how they see fit. Exactly how it should be done in an open metaverse economy.

Topics:

First up, drama is stird up in the Bitmap community since the NATRIX was released, Mostly coming from people who side with Bitoshi
Next,discuss all the problems with the current parcel standard and Will breaks down exactly how the LDE process solves all of them.
and Finally, question the ethos of Bitmap as its original purpose was to be an open metaverse development ecosystem and have the opportunity to affect technical outcomes for the betterment of creators and users.

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Friday Nov 08, 2024

232. TBR - NATRIX Breaks Bitmap | Building a Metaverse on Bitcoin For Developers or A Cult?

Friday Nov 08, 2024

We recently initiated the first Bitmap LDE and community reaction has been quite volcanic. More than 600 parcels have been distributed from a single Bitmap and builders are already utilizing the tools of BitmapOS to build out their virtual experiences within the NATRIX. However, members of the Bitmap community feel this to be a negative for the Bitmap ecosystem due to differences in interpretations of how Bitoshi’s Bitmap Parceling standard is to be respected. We go through our reasoning and logic as to how we performed an LDE in the manner that has been done utilizing TAP protocol for a more efficient approach.

Topics:

First up, they guys recently initiated the first Bitmap LDE and community reaction has been quite volcanic
Next, More than 600 parcels have been distributed and builders are already utilizing the tools of BitmapOS to build out their virtual experiences within the NATRIX
and Finally, thee guys go through their reasoning and logic as to how they performed an LDE in the manner that has been done utilizing TAP protocol for a more efficient approach

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Friday Nov 08, 2024

231. TBR - LOCKING IN For Bitcoin Bull Cycle | Embracing The Hard | Metaverse Endgame

Friday Nov 08, 2024

We’ve been building for more than a year now in the Bitcoin ecosystem and are finally at a point where we are able to hone in and lock down our development roadmap in order to finalize our metaverse on Bitcoin vision. Since the beginning days of DMT we have relied on Benny’s developments on the TAP protocol to support critical functionalities. As the TAP protocol continues to evolve, our more metaverse development focused goals now seem much more feasible and a high velocity metaverse economy built on Bitmap, powered by BitmapOS and the TAP protocol. We discuss the difficulties we have faced in this journey so far in developing DMT protocol and now BitmapOS technologies to improve the developer experience for Bitmap builders.

Topics:

First up, the guys been building for more than a year and are able to lock down on their development roadmap in order to finalize our metaverse on Bitcoin vision
Next, the guys discuss the difficulties we have faced in this journey so far in developing DMT protocol
and Finally, What are ways BitmapOS technologies improve the developer experience for Bitmap builders

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Friday Nov 08, 2024

230. TBR - Ordinals Are in Trouble | Are You Ready for NATRIX 😎

Friday Nov 08, 2024

We begin our podcast talking about some of the drama within the Ordinals community around the disruptive ability for Ordinal collection founders to make alterations to what is and is not part of their collection post mint. This falls in direct opposition to what Ordinal influencers have touted as the killer benefit to owning an Ordinal art piece as opposed to an NFT. The immutability provenance associated to Bitcoin does not seem to be applied in the metaprotocol realm and we discuss exactly why this is and detail how this will be a continued issue and potential FUD vector as the Ordinals market continues forward.

We then go into more details about the NATRIX which we will likely begin LDE within the coming days without a fixed date. We break down what Bitmap is and how the NATRIX is the most true to Bitmap metaverse ecosystem roll out since the inception of Bitmap Theory. Also, we discuss how NATRIX is a showcase demonstration of how to onboard community by utilizing a single Bitmap as a super powerful tool to align community to partake in the construction process of a virtual environment. Also highlighting how the tools developed to make NATRIX a powerhouse demonstration being publicly available for all Bitmap owners to utilize in the future.

Topics:

First up, talking about some of the drama within the Ordinals community around the disruptive ability for Ordinal collection founders to make alterations to what is and is not part of their collection post mint
Next, go into more details about the NATRIX which the guys will likely begin LDE within the coming days
and Finally, break down what Bitmap is and how the NATRIX is the most true to Bitmap metaverse ecosystem roll out since the inception of Bitmap Theory

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Friday Nov 08, 2024

229. TBR - Analyzing The State of Bitcoin L1 w/ Fitzy, Head of Marketing at TAP Protocol

Friday Nov 08, 2024

As time goes on the Bitcoin development space continues to bifurcate and segment into separate ecosystems that deploy their own native solutions to Bitcoin’s biggest problem, its lack of programmability. We discuss with Fitzy from the TAP team how the current state of Bitcoin looks with so many emerging meta protocols, L2s, and Fractal chains entering into the equation as a potential viable solution. We contemplate the markets perceptions around the technical need of indexing in support of app development around Bitcoin and also question the merits of new entrants into the meta protocol space.

We also talk about some of the upcoming updates coming to the TAP protocol such as BRC20 support, Blockdrops, DMT data fields, and Bitmap support. Also rundown the history of Benny’s contributions to the Ordinals/Bitcoin ecosystem and highlight the significance of the TTP ecosystem in supporting the application of DMT.

Topics:

First up, Who is Fitzy, and how did they get into the web3 space
Next, the guys ask Fitzy how the current state of Bitcoin looks with so many emerging meta protocols, L2s, and Fractal chains entering into the equation.
Then, contemplate the markets perceptions around the technical need of indexing in support of app development around Bitcoin
and Finally, rundown the history of Benny’s contributions to the Ordinals/Bitcoin ecosystem and highlight the significance of the TTP ecosystem

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