The Bitcoin Game #34: Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd - a podcast by Rob Mitchell
from 2016-02-18T00:50:21
Hello, welcome to episode 34 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell, and my guest is Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd.
Peter was really open in this interview, and we talked about everything from his relationship with Gavin Andresen, to mistakes he made in his early days working with Bitcoin Core, and a dozen topics in between. A lot of Peter’s focus was on explaining what he feels are the differences between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic, and why he believes Core is the path to follow at this juncture. Additionally, we touch on Peter's Coinbase double-spend, perceived issues with Replace By Fee, and private blockchains.
SHOW LINKS
Peter Todd communicating with Adam Back and Hal Finney in 2001
Segregated Witnesses (hey, Peter says it this way!)
IBLTs (Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables)
MAGIC WORD
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SPONSOR
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BITCOIN HISTORIC PRICE LOOKUP
Sometimes I'm doing accounting and I wish there was a quick tool to help look up the U.S. dollar value of a past Bitcoin transaction. So I asked Joe Looney to build it for me, and I'm sharing this tool with listeners. Nothing amazing here, it just looks up a historic Bitcoin price (in USD) then multiplies that rate by the Bitcoin amount you enter. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this price lookup tool.
BitcoinHistoricPrice.com
MUSIC
All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me.
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