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The Bitcoin FrontierWhat if bitcoin development stopped tomorrow? with Mike Schmidt and Buck PerleyWhat if bitcoin development stopped tomorrow? In this episode, we sit down with Mike Schmidt, Executive Director at Brink, and Buck Perley, Director of Product Engineering at Unchained, to explore the state of open source development and why it matters more than ever. Mike shares his path from software engineer to funding bitcoin core developers, while Buck recounts his early bitcoin experiences in China. We cover what bitcoin core developers actually do, how brink evaluates contributors, and why maintenance, security, and review are essential—even without major protocol changes. The conversation also touches on ossification, governance, and the future of...2025-04-1555 min
Citadel DispatchCD148: OPEN SOURCE AND UNCHAINED WITH BUCK PERLEYBuck Perley is one of the co-hosts of Austin BitDevs and an engineer at Unchained. We discuss his work improving Unchained's open source sovereign multi sig app Caravan.Buck on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub15gaw9fpcwrleq332pl95xndencvwgwdtfee6ejlngp7waeh0e35sg8r670 Blog Post: https://unchained.com/blog/unchained-2024-open-source/Caravan Repo: https://github.com/caravan-bitcoin/caravanCaravan Website: https://www.caravanmultisig.com/ Unchained Website: https://unchained.com/EPISODE: 148BLOCK: 877362PRICE: 1062 sats per dollarsupport dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate nostr live chat...2025-01-011h 09