SLP404 Gloria Zhao - What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?

Aug 10 2022 • 1hr 15m

Show Notes

Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin core contributor and maintainer, rejoins me on the show to chat about what bitcoin core maintainers do. We discuss:

What do Bitcoin Core maintainers do?
How does Bitcoin Core development work?
How much ‘power’ do maintainers have?
Mempools - what are they and why do we need them?
Interaction with L2 protocols
Mempool package relay
RBF

Links:

Twitter: @glozow
Package Relay Proposal
Site mentioned: Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Github: glozow
Brink: @bitcoinbrink
Bitcoin Core PR Reviews: @BitcoinCorePRs
SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club
SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)