Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop discusses Bitcoin development.

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Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop and Trace Mayer talk about technical aspects of Bitcoin and Bitcoin development.

About the episode.

Resources

• Bryan Bishop
• Building on Bitcoin
• Open Currency
• Lightning Network
• Nick Szabo
• Hal Finney
• Wei Dai
• Adam Back
• BitDNS
• Secp256k1
• BIPS
• Bolts
• Schnorr signatures
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
• LedgerX

Show Notes

• 00:00:46 - Welcome & Intro.
• 00:01:14 - How Bishop got in to Bitcoin.
• 00:03:39 - What kind of technical debt have we seen with Bitcoin and how difficult is it to work with consensus critical code?
• 00:10:16 - Bishop explains what is happening in bitcoin development.
• 00:12:01 - Bishop explains what is coming down the pipeline with BTC development.
• 00:16:28 - Bishop explains what sig hash no input means.
• 00:18:11 - Bishop talks about how developers signal multiple soft forks at the same time.
• 00:20:36 - Bishop gives his advice for listeners.
• 00:22:16 - Bishop tells what he is most excited for in the next few years.