Jonas Schnelli, one of the Bitcoin Core maintainers joins me to talk about Bitcoin development, contribution, funding and the ecosystem of Bitcoin. We get into:

How contribution happens
How to deal with conflict as a maintainer
What rough consensus means
Taproot
Privacy
Lightning
Mining
Outlook for next 5 years

Jonas links:

Twitter: @jonasschnelli
Website: bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch/
Github: github.com/jonasschnelli

Prior episodes:

SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club
SLP229 John Newbery – Brink: Bitcoin DevelopmentJohn Newbery
SLP124 Jon Atack – Bitcoin Core Contribution
SLP211 Steve Lee – Bitcoin Grants, Design & Crypto Patents (COPA)
SLP144 Steve Lee – Square Crypto and Supporting Bitcoin Development
SLP137 AJ Towns – Schnorr Taproot Tapscript BIPs

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin
Knox Custody
Hodl Hodl
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CypherSafe (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

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