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February 24, 2025 · 1h 18m

BITCOIN MINING LAWSUITS: DECISIONS NOW, PRECEDENTS FOREVER | Paula Pendley (THE Bitcoin Podcast)

“When laws were made… no one's contemplating Bitcoin mining… You are setting a precedent now in these lawsuits that becomes a persuasive authority.”

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1 So when laws were made, right, 2 no one's contemplating Bitcoin mining.

4 No one knows the Bitcoin protocol, right, 5 when they're creating laws and same AI.

6 So these legislatures and these judges 7 also in their judicial brains, 8 they're seeing some of these things for the first time.

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So when laws were made, right,

no one's contemplating Bitcoin mining.

No one's contemplating digital thirsty.

No one knows the Bitcoin protocol, right,

when they're creating laws and same AI.

So these legislatures and these judges

also in their judicial brains,

they're seeing some of these things for the first time.

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“When laws were made… no one's contemplating Bitcoin mining… You are setting a precedent now in these lawsuits that becomes a persuasive authority.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Paula Pendley. Paula and I dug deep into the her work as a lawyer defending Bitcoin miners and the types of legal attacks miners face, but we also discussed the use of AI in law, why no one trusts legacy media, the changing regulatory landscape and more.