#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes.
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Check out the Sjors's book
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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| 0:00.0 | So, freaks. It's your boy Marty here to introduce Rip 383 of TFTC with Shores, Provost, |
| 0:11.7 | Bitcoin Core contributor, author of Bitcoin, a work in progress. |
| 0:19.0 | All-around great conversationalists. |
| 0:21.2 | We have a long rip here for you. |
| 0:22.8 | Get technical. |
| 0:23.9 | Get cosmic. |
| 0:25.8 | Get heady. |
| 0:26.8 | I think you guys are going to enjoy it. |
| 0:28.6 | First, we have to read top four boosts from RIP 382, |
| 0:31.8 | the dematerialization of money with Jesse Myers. |
| 0:35.2 | If you guys are contributing to the show via podcasting 2.0, |
| 0:38.7 | Value for Value Model. |
| 0:40.0 | We thank you very much. |
| 0:41.6 | You can use apps like Fountain, Podverse, Breeze to contribute, |
| 0:46.0 | streamsats, boostsats. |
| 0:47.3 | We read the top four boost of the previous episode in this intro. |
| 1:00.2 | Here they are for RIP, Eric 99 50,000 sats stay humble stack sats at Garth 20,000 sats no message thank you Garth thank you Eric 99 at Vake 7,500 |
| 1:08.0 | sat boost farty bent very funny V Very funny, Vake. Very funny. Farty bent. It's Marty. You misspelled it. |
| 1:17.6 | And at Tetsu, 5,000 sats. C-shell emoji, C-shell emoji, C-shell emoji, epic rip boys, all caps. |
| 1:25.6 | Fire emoji, fire emoji, fire emoji. |
| 1:28.5 | Thank you, Tetsu. |
| 1:29.7 | Thank you, Eric 9, 9, Garth, Vak, and Tetsu for being the top four boost contributors to rip 382. |
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