How Long Does It Take to Get Into Bitcoin Development?

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)