Sebastian Falbesoner (theStack) and Mike Schmidt talk about Bitcoin Core code review, BIP324, and Sebastian’s plans for the next year.

(0:00) - Sebastian’s journey to Bitcoin development
(4:00) - Thoughts on contributing to Bitcoin Core in a remote, part time capacity
(7:26) - What is the Bitcoin Core test framework?
(12:15) - From testing to PR authorship (and Bitcoin Core #25957)
(17:05) - The scarcity and importance of code review
(22:56) - Benefits of BIP324, Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol
(29:13) - Sebastian’s approach to contributing to BIP324 and libsecp256k1
(37:18) - BIP322 generic signmessage

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The Bitcoin Development PodcastBy BrinkNov 24, 2021