#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Dec 16, 2022•2 hr 7 min

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Episode description

Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes.

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7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin!
10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill
13:46 - Miners could start self censoring
20:24 - Forced labour
22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML?
24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission"
25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin?
30:30 - State of Bitcoin development
33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain
39:44 - Erlay
46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth
50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war
55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind
58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus
1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks
1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin
1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus
1:09:07 - Geeks project
1:16:44 - Defending your node
1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes
1:25:28 - Miniscript
1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing?
1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin?
1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
1:41:59 - AI writers
1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0
1:47:39 - Checkpoints
1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday
1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks
1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy
1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin
2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb
2:05:28 - Ending