While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month, I was able to sit with Bitcoin core developer Antoine Poinsot.
Now, at Chaincode Lab, Antoine was previously at Wizardsardine, the Bitcoin security company behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction-based vault, and Liana, a mini-ispurto-based Bitcoin wallet. Antoine’s first commit was integrated with Bitcoin Core on May 16, 2019.
Antoine discussed the great consensus screen-up proposal that it proposes as a future soft fork of the Bitcoin protocol, modeled after Matt Corallo’s original Verson proposal from 2019.
Bitcoin has suffered from numerous bugs over the years, with some notable events like the inflation bugs since 2010. There are still bad bugs in the protocol, but not so bad, but still bad.
Antoine talks about these different protocol bugs and his proposed solutions to address them. Perhaps it’s just foot guns that can be easily explained if you know them, but some of them are very serious flaws that can pose real risks to the Bitcoin network.
You can see the interview here:
