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A Shift in Bitcoin Developer Thought? with Brandon Black (aka reardencode) SLP573
About this episode
As you may know, at the recent Bitcoin++ conference, there was a ‘meeting of the minds’ and Brandon Black aka reardencode rejoins me on the show to discuss. We talk about:
- The state of various covenant proposals
- What has shifted now in thinking
- The promise of Great Script Restoration
- Could it have bad side effects?
- Doing good engineering
Links:
- X: @reardencode
- Bitcoin++: btcplusplus.dev
- Rusty’s talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSp8918HLnA
Sponsors:
- Swan.com (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
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