
The Open Source and Commercial Software Landscape of Bitcoin with Bryan Bishop
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Host: Brian Harrington
Record Date: June 15, 2022
Record Location: Remote
Bryan Bishop is a contributor to Bitcoin core, the main implementation of Bitcoin and received some of the earliest emails from Satoshi about the Bitcoin project. If you have never listened to a Bitcoin core contributor talk about the early days of the software this is an awesome episode for you.
Brian and Bryan also cover:
- Cryptocurrency exchanges becoming banks and banks becoming cryptocurrency exchanges
- The arbitrary distinction between commodities and securities
- Reflections on Bitcoin changing over time
- The future of software and computers in general
- Side chains and layer 2's of Bitcoin as well as Bryan's project Webcash
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