I think @bluematt does a nice job with this. But, Laura Shin comes off as really salty about Bitcoin culture -- and just not understanding in general that Bitcoin culture isn't any one thing. It seems to drive the shitcoiners (and normies) crazy that Bitcoin is just a mess (and that most bitcoiners are fine without any clear governance structure at all).
The premise of the episode is that Corallo reached out to Laura Shin to respond to Nic Carter's quantum fud of late (#1260675, #1295184, #1426664).
Shin keeps asking bringing up that Ethereum is doing all this centralized stuff to fix the threat to quantum. And she also keeps acting like there is a monolith called "the Bitcoin developers" and she is clearly not pleased with Corallo's responses.
Honestly, Shin sounds a lot like some other people who think there is something "official" in Bitcoin. Corallo clearly comes at it from the angle the only official thing is the market.
Here's an X link if you'd prefer to watch it there:
Honestly, the podcast with Livera on the same topic was much, much better. https://stephanlivera.com/episode/719/
I'll give it a listen. Laura Shin reminded me strongly why I don't listen to her podcast very often.
Great answer here, by the way!
I mean... did you walk far away from your phone/puter to not be in time to skip the opening ads? I did, and I was cooking dinner and I didn't want to mess that up. It's good that I'm in such a good mood today that I'm going to forget that I heard all that scammy shit.
If that's true, then why? Why Laura Shin? What does she bring? Whose ear does she have that is going to make a difference? Is she the Jack-whisperer or something?
I've gotten so used to skipping ads that my default behavior now is press play, mash the 10s forward button until I hear interviewee's voice, listen from that point.
I strongly agree with Corallo's stance that price action really is not affected by quantum fud at this time (I find it very hard to believe that smart people are selling bitcoin because they're scared of quantum computers)...but if that's the case, one does wonder why he bothered to reach out to her (something she repeats at least twice). I assume the main advantage being on her show has is that her audience is probably more likely to share it with mainstream/suits. So then it does sound a little like trying to correct a narrative.
Maybe he just wanted to kick back at Carter and is trying to all the big podcasts?
Nope it's just people finding out that
https://twiiit.com/laurashin/status/2025571283157586238
Corallo's framing is exactly right: quantum is an engineering problem with known mitigations, not a crisis. The interesting part is watching Laura struggle with the fact that Bitcoin's 'mess' is intentional — there's no CEO to call, no governance board to pressure, no coordinated roadmap she can critique. After years of watching how these conversations play out, I've noticed that outsiders often want Bitcoin to have the decision-making structure of traditional systems, which is the one thing it explicitly avoids. That architectural stubbornness is the whole point.