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 book by Sjors Provoost

• Bitcoin, Explained podcast by Sjors Provoost

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