Andrew Chow and the Bitcoin Core Wallet - Episode 30

Update: 2023-03-10

Description

Andrew Chow joins us to discuss Bitcoin Core wallet development, PSBT, Output Descriptors, and HWI.

We cover:

- Why do we need a wallet in Bitcoin Core? (0:58 )

- Refactoring the Wallet codebase to build Output Descriptors (5:59 )Should we rewrite the wallet? (10:30 )

- Changes to Coin Selection (11:35 )

- Wallet interoperability (17:10 )

- Hardware Wallet Integration (HWI) (18:20 )

- Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) (19:01 )

- Becoming Maintainer (22:06 )

- Tracking the UTXO pool (23:43 )

- Main components of the Bitcoin Core Wallet (26:00 )

- Who uses Bitcoin Core Wallet? (27:02 )

- Survey Results

- What’s the future of the GUI? (29:21 )

- Bitcoin Core GUI

- Bitcoin Core GUI-QML

- Switch to Descriptor-based wallets (32:52 )

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Andrew Chow and the Bitcoin Core Wallet - Episode 30