Episode notes
Josibake joins us to talk about his work on the Bitcoin Core wallet, bitcoin data and onboarding to bitcoin development.
We discussed:
- Analyzing historical transaction data (1:25)
- Creating a publicly available dataset (4:12)
- What could it be used for? (7:30)
- Bitcoin Core wallet (9:00)
- Why have a wallet in Bitcoin Core? (10:00)
- Separation of GUI from wallet (12:35)
- Only use one input type when building transaction (13:40)
- PR #24584 in Bitcoin Core
- How is working on the wallet? (17:15)
- Cross-input signature aggregation (19:48)
- Catching up on history (20:40)
- Writing the BIP with Hackspec (22:05)
- Thoughts on shipping cross-input signature aggregation separately (22:50)
- Onboarding to Bitcoin development (28:35)
- Running the seminar with friends (29:55)
- Giving back to open source (31:20)
