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

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

English - December 16, 2022 14:00 - 2 hours - 116 MB - ★★★★★ - 601 ratings
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Previous Episode: #382: The Dematerialization of Money with Jesse Myers

Next Episode: #384: Nostr Got 1.4B Sats From Jack Dorsey And Banned From Twitter with jb55

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