# Nic Carter: The Second Bitcoin Civil War

*Author: David Hoffman*
*Published: Feb 27, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/de/podcast/nic-carter-the-second-bitcoin-civil-war*

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Nic Carter rejoins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin’s second civil war. When did it begin? Where are the party lines drawn? How will it end? Possible solutions? David and Nic dig into all of these questions and much more. 

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## TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro

7:30 The Bitcoin Civil War

10:32 Defining Side Lines 

14:14 No Core Consensus 

17:13 Filtering Out Transactions & Expressivity 

22:39 Season Two 

26:16 Lightning Doesn’t Work?

29:16 Ordinals & Bitcoin L2s 

32:49 The Future of Bitcoin Core

35:16 Covenants Explained 

37:26 Bitcoin Venture Capital

48:26 BitVM

51:64 Bitcoin Block Philosophy 

1:02:10 Bitcoin Expressivity Going Too Far 

1:07:36 Bitcoin Ideology

1:10:12 Closing  

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## RESOURCES
Nic Carter

https://twitter.com/nic__carter