Whereas attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I used to be capable of sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot.
At the moment at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was beforehand at Wizardsardine, a bitcoin safety firm behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction primarily based vault, and Liana, a miniscript primarily based Bitcoin pockets. Antoine’s first commit was merged to Bitcoin Core on Could sixteenth, 2019.
We mentioned the Great Consensus Cleanup proposal Antoine is placing ahead as a potential gentle fork of the Bitcoin protocol modeled on Matt Corallo’s unique verson of the proposal from 2019.
Bitcoin has suffered from quite a few bugs through the years, with some notably extreme occasions just like the inflation bug from 2010. There are nonetheless some unhealthy bugs within the protocol, not that unhealthy, however unhealthy nonetheless.
Antoine talks about these totally different protocol bugs, and his proposed options to deal with them. Some are arguably merely foot weapons which are simple to account for if you’re conscious of them, however a few of them are very severe flaws that would current an actual threat to the Bitcoin community.
You may watch the interview right here:
