Pieter Wuille on Building Bitcoin - WBD132

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Location: San Fransisco
Date: Monday 22nd July
Company: Blockstream
Role: Co-founder

Pieter Wuille is one of the most influential, respected and prolific Bitcoin developers. While his career began at Google, the appeal of working on Bitcoin's open-source protocol was too tempting and led him to co-found Blockstream.

Pieter has had a significant influence on the Bitcoin project and has the third most commits on the codebase. He has helped to implement some of the most significant changes to the protocol, including Segregated Witness, one of the most contentious hard forks in Bitcoin's history.

As others debate the Bitcoin roadmap, Pieter has managed to remove himself from the infighting; instead, focusing his time on improving Bitcoin. As such, he's now working on implementing Taproot, Schnorr Signatures and MAST.

In this interview, we hear how Pieter first heard about Bitcoin in 2010, entering the world of mining and selling thousands of Bitcoin for $0.20. I also find out what he thinks of Bitcoin in 2019 and what he argues is the threat to its future.

Bonus: we also hear from a Blockstream intern at the end about his experience working at Blockstream and supporting Pieter in developing Bitcoin.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast.
0:07.0	Hello there from Bedford.
0:08.0	How are you all?
0:09.0	Welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast,
0:11.0	which is brought to you by Krakhan,
0:12.0	the best place to buy
0:13.8	sell and trade Bitcoin it's got the best set of tools for traders out there so how
0:18.6	are you all are you all well I'm just about to submit my defense in the CSW case. Red Thoreddall is looking pretty strong.
0:27.0	Feeling pretty confident about it now, having seen the great work by my lawyers or so, by the time you're listening to this I'm going to be far away on holiday.
0:35.2	I'm taking a well-needed rest but don't worry I've got a whole stack of shows ready to be published while I'm away
0:41.6	and we're going to start this batch off with an interview with Peter Woolley,
0:46.0	which I think might be his first full solo podcast interview, which is pretty damn cool.
0:50.0	But before that, let's hear from my amazing sponsors who make this all happen.
0:55.0	So firstly today we're going to talk to you about Drop Bit.
0:58.0	So many of you have downloaded the app now.
1:00.0	I get so much feedback. I get d'ams. I get tweets, I get emails, I get so much feedback I get dms I get tweets I get emails I get people telling me they've downloaded it and I've even sent a few
1:07.1	sats to some of you to buy some beers and not one person's actually got in touch
1:11.1	and said they don't like it which I think is
1:12.6	pretty cool and do you want know why that is because it's a really awesome
1:17.2	Bitcoin mobile wallet these guys are crushing innovation you can Bitcoin, you can tweet Bitcoin, you basically use it like a
1:26.1	Venmo for Bitcoin. And they're also hard at work on a bunch of new features. I even
1:30.6	messaged them yesterday. I wanted to catch up with them before I went away on holiday and they were like leave us alone Pete we're busy we're building shit
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