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

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

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