Description

Jon Atack joins me to talk about his experience with open source software development, and to talk about the process of Bitcoin Core development and code review. We talk:

• Becoming a Bitcoin Core contributor
• How to best contribute
• Communication channels for development
• Priorities in Bitcoin development
• Funding for development

Jon Atack Links:

• Twitter: @jonatack (https://twitter.com/jonatack)
• Github: @jonatack (https://github.com/jonatack)
• Bitcoin Core PR Review Club:  https://bitcoincore.reviews and  https://twitter.com/BitcoinCorePRs
• How to Review Bitcoin Core PRs:  https://github.com/jonatack/bitcoin-development/blob/master/how-to-review-bitcoin-core-prs.md
• How to Make Bitcoin Core PRs: https://github.com/jonatack/bitcoin-development/blob/master/how-to-make-bitcoin-core-prs.md
• Bitcoin Core Peer Review process: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#peer-review
• “On Consensus” by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282

Sponsor links:

• Kraken
• Unchained Capital
• GiveBitcoin
• Bitcoin Outletuse code: LIVERA for 21% off

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website
• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast