Whereas attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I used to be capable of sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot.
At present at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was beforehand at Wizardsardine, a bitcoin safety firm behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction based mostly vault, and Liana, a miniscript based mostly Bitcoin pockets. Antoine’s first commit was merged to Bitcoin Core on Might 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 dangerous bugs within the protocol, not that dangerous, however dangerous nonetheless.
Antoine talks about these totally different protocol bugs, and his proposed options to handle them. Some are arguably merely foot weapons which might be simple to account for if you’re conscious of them, however a few of them are very severe flaws that would current an actual danger to the Bitcoin community.
You possibly can watch the interview right here:
