I am Steve Lee, lead of Spiral, the open-source bitcoin initiative of Block. We have funded over 50 people to work on FOSS bitcoin.
Topics to ask me about:
- Spiral
- Block
- Various projects Spiral supports: LDK, BDK, VLS, Bitcoin design community and bitcoin design guide, Stratum v2, Fedimint, etc.
- LN ecosystem "roadmap"
- Mobile LN wallet architecture considerations
- Centralization forces on bitcoin and efforts to improve
- "PMing" in open-source bitcoin
- Framework for FOSS bitcoin projects
- Future of bitcoin mining
- Future of self-custody and self-sovereign bitcoin
- PoW vs. PoS hot takes
Let's go!