Working on Bitcoin
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History: contributors start around 2019 and some go serious in 2023, now splitting time between reviews and feature work. Current work includes a P2P anti-correlation tool to mitigate dual‑home fingerprinting, proposals for testnet4/testnet5, research into cross‑input Schnorr aggregation and batch verification to shrink validation cost, and implementation of secp256k1 silent payments. Onboarding relies on GitHub/IRC, Python functional tests, fellowships (Bitrust, chaincode residency) and one‑on‑one mentorship.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03How contributors first got into Bitcoin development
- 3:54Daily work in Bitcoin Core
- 9:56Open source vs startup culture
- 14:18Challenges in Bitcoin OSS
- 17:29Is Bitcoin still open?
- 23:18Advice for new contributors
- 26:17Startup habits in OSS
- 29:55Contributing without experience
- 31:03First in-person meeting
- 31:45Learning Bitcoin Core
- 34:15Contacting Bitcoin Core devs
- 35:44Balancing work and rest
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