SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict

Jonas Schnelli, one of the Bitcoin Core maintainers joins me to talk about Bitcoin development, contribution, funding and the ecosystem of Bitcoin. We get into:

• How contribution happens


• How to deal with conflict as a maintainer


• What rough consensus means


• Taproot


• Privacy


• Lightning


• Mining


• Outlook for next 5 years

Jonas links:

• Twitter: @jonasschnelli


• Website: bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch/


• Github: github.com/jonasschnelli

Prior episodes:

• SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club


• SLP229 John Newbery – Brink: Bitcoin DevelopmentJohn Newbery


• SLP124 Jon Atack – Bitcoin Core Contribution


• SLP211 Steve Lee – Bitcoin Grants, Design & Crypto Patents (COPA)


• SLP144 Steve Lee – Square Crypto and Supporting Bitcoin Development


• SLP137 AJ Towns – Schnorr Taproot Tapscript BIPs

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin


• Knox Custody


• Hodl Hodl


• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)


• CypherSafe (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website


• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera


• Subscribe to the podcast


• Patreon @stephanlivera