Posted on 14 September 2023

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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