The Tyranny of Permissionlessness in Bitcoin | Amiti Uttarwar

<p>Amiti Uttarwar is a Bitcoin protocol developer and founder of Waye. In this episode we discuss her path from Bitcoin Core to building support structures for long term open source contributors, the limits of permissionless work, funding and sustainability tradeoffs in Bitcoin development, and why social and human layers now matter as much as technical ones.</p> <p><strong>THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.anchorwatch.com/"><strong>ANCHORWATCH</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://mining.blockwaresolutions.com/wbd"><strong>BLOCKWARE</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://ledn.io/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=partnership&utm_campaign=2025_whatbitcoindid&utm_content=ad_read"><strong>LEDN</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://bitkey.world/"><strong>BITKEY</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.swan.com/wbd"><strong>SWAN</strong></a></p> <p><strong>FOLLOW:</strong></p> <p>Danny Knowles: <a href="https://x.com/%5C_DannyKnowles">https://x.com/\_DannyKnowles</a> or <a href="https://primal.net/danny">https://primal.net/danny</a></p> <p>Amiti Uttarwar: <a href="https://x.com/amizi">https://x.com/amizi</a></p> <p>Waye: <a href="https://www.waye.dev/">https://www.waye.dev/</a></p>