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: [email protected]


• Nostr & LN:⚡[email protected] (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-25/