@seardsalmon

In this podcast, @nixbitcoinorg, @n1ckler, and @seardsalmon discuss security-focused bitcoin nodes. They cover topics such as maintaining Nix Bitcoin for security and transparency, rollback and reproducibility in NixOS, using Duas as a replacement for pseudo, technical decisions related to Bitcoin, portability and compatibility challenges, BTC Pay Server implementation, the concern of potential manipulation by leading node projects, updating and closing Bitcoin channels with PTLCs and Taproot, usage and audience of a specific technology, contributing to Nix Bitcoin, activation of Schnorr signatures and Taproot upgrade, exploring hashes and liquidity pools, signature aggregation in Lightning Network's gossip network, benefits of Nix Bitcoin Node and importance of documentation.

Guests @seardsalmon, @mario_gibney, @kcalvinalvinn, @SomsenRuben, and @sanket1729 discuss pruned nodes, utreexo, validation, full nodes, tradeoffs, liquid, soft forks, and utxo set, exploring different nodes, Bloom filters, transaction validation, privacy concerns, benefits of liquid and federated side chains, using federated side chains as test beds, progress on simplicity programming language, Bitcoin meetups, podcast's theme song, BISC and Cypher Punk Pay, and lightweight nodes.