#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
December 16, 20222h 6m
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Show Notes
<p>Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes.</p>
<p>Follow Sjors on <a href="https://twitter.com/provoost">Twitter</a></p>
<p>Check out the Sjors's <a href="https://www.btcwip.com/">book</a> </p>
<p>7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin!<br />
10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill<br />
13:46 - Miners could start self censoring<br />
20:24 - Forced labour<br />
22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML?<br />
24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission"<br />
25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin?<br />
30:30 - State of Bitcoin development<br />
33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain<br />
39:44 - Erlay<br />
46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth<br />
50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war<br />
55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind<br />
58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus<br />
1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks<br />
1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin<br />
1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus<br />
1:09:07 - Geeks project<br />
1:16:44 - Defending your node<br />
1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes<br />
1:25:28 - Miniscript<br />
1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing?<br />
1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin?<br />
1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress<br />
1:41:59 - AI writers<br />
1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0<br />
1:47:39 - Checkpoints<br />
1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday<br />
1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks<br />
1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy<br />
1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin<br />
2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb<br />
2:05:28 - Ending</p>
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