While I was at the Mitcoin exhibition last month, I could sit with Bitcoin Core Sjors Provoost developer.
Sjors is a physicist turned into a Bitcoin developer, who believes it or is not really a fairly common phenomenon. It began to contribute to Bitcoin Core in 2017, a very turbulent moment during which the activation of segregated witnesses was being developed in the culmination of block wars with the user activated Softfork and the New York Agreement.
It is also coanfrerion of Bitcoin, explainedA podcast made with Aaron Van Wirdum, the current editor in chief of Bitcoin magazine. More recently has also written the book Bitcoin: A job in progressExplaining technical aspects of Bitcoin. Each chapter is combined with an episode of the podcast.
We talk about the Bitcoin Core project itself. How it is organized, what it is like to work and some of the challenges that may appear for those who make the leap to contribute directly to the Bitcoin nucleus.
Look at the interview here:
