Alekos Filini and Daniela Brozzoni visit the podcast to discuss the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK). Hang out with them on the BDK Discord.

We cover:

• How BDK started (00:48)

  
  

• Why is it named BDK and not the Magical Bitcoin Library? (2:10)

  
  

• The first users of BDK (3:30)

  
  

• Rust HWI (4:20)

  
  

• Built around descriptors (7:15)

  
  

• The ideal use case of BDK (7:30)

  
  

• Pain points (9:05)

  
  

• Why do devs keep building wallets from scratch? (10:05)

  
  

• Greenwallet (13:03)

  
  

• If you have a working wallet, should you switch to BDK? (16:25)

  
  

• HWI complaints (see Python) (17:41)

  
  

• BDK 1.0 release features (22:31)

  • Sync
  • Planning module