Whereas attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I used to be capable of sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot.
Presently 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 Nice 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 completely different protocol bugs, and his proposed options to handle them. Some are arguably merely foot weapons which are simple to account for in case you are conscious of them, however a few of them are very critical flaws that would current an actual threat to the Bitcoin community.
You’ll be able to watch the interview right here:
