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

Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes. Follow Sjors on Twitter 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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast