BR025 - Demystifying and Understanding Bitcoin Core Development ft. Sjors, Schmidty & James O'Beirne
I'm joined by guests Sjors Provoost, James O'Beirne & Mike Schmidt to discuss Bitcoin Core development.
Discussion Topics:
- 00:00:52 Guest introductions
- 00:07:48 The beginning of Bitcoin development
- 00:12:08 Modern Bitcoin development
- 00:12:57 The process for making basic changes to Bitcoin
- 00:23:35 Who decides what gets worked on?
- 00:39:05 Who chooses what gets merged?
- 00:46:31 BIPs
- 01:00:03 Is Github centralisation a risk?
- 01:05:27 Activation methods
- 01:28:30 Improving Bitcoin development and visibility/perception of development
- 01:49:35 Audience questions
Notes & Resources:
- Bitcoincore.org
- Bitcoin Github Repo
- Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
- Contributing to Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin: A Work in Progress
- Bitcoin, Explained
Links & Contacts:
- Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
- NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
- Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
- Email: producer@coinkite.com
- Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)
Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-25/
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