Josie, the Bitcoin Core wallet and wrangling bitcoin data

Josibake joins us to talk about his work on the Bitcoin Core wallet, bitcoin data and onboarding to bitcoin development.

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  • 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)
    • 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 opensource (31:20)