Sebastian Falbesoner (theStack) and Mike Schmidt talk about Bitcoin Core code review, BIP324, and Sebastian’s plans for the next year.

• (0:00 ) - Sebastian’s journey to Bitcoin development


• (4:00 ) - Thoughts on contributing to Bitcoin Core in a remote, part time capacity


• (7:26 ) - What is the Bitcoin Core test framework?


• (12:15 ) - From testing to PR authorship (and Bitcoin Core #25957)


• (17:05 ) - The scarcity and importance of code review


• (22:56 ) - Benefits of BIP324, Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol


• (29:13 ) - Sebastian’s approach to contributing to BIP324 and libsecp256k1


• (37:18 ) - BIP322 generic signmessage

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