Aaron Van Wirdum

The State of Bitcoin Core Development

Aug 31, 2024

Aaron van Wirdum, Ava Chow, Ishaana Misra, Mark Erhardt

Bitcoin core Career

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Silent Payments part 2

Jul 07, 2024

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum, Ruben Somsen

Silent payments

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The Great Consensus Cleanup Revival (And an Update on the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet Arrests)

May 29, 2024

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Wallet Consensus cleanup

bitcoin-explained

Hashcash and Bit Gold

Jan 03, 2024

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

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The Block 1, 983, 702 Problem

Dec 21, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Security problems

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Ocean Tides

Dec 06, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Pooled mining

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Bitcoin Core 26.0 (And F2Pool's OFAC Compliant Mining Policy)

Nov 23, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core

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Scaling to Billions of Users

Jul 10, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Scalability Sidechains

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Bitcoin Core 25.0

Jun 26, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Miniscript Wallet Compact block filters Transaction relay policy

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Peer-to-peer Encryption

Apr 24, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core V2 p2p transport

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Inscriptions

Feb 08, 2023

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

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Bitcoin Core 24.0 Bug

Dec 29, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core

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Bitcoin Core 24.0

Oct 07, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Rbf Coin selection Descriptors Miniscript

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HD Wallets, Mnemonic codes and SeedQR

Sep 17, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Hardware wallet Bip32

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OP_RETURN

Jul 15, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Scripts addresses Transaction relay policy

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Silent Payments

Jun 09, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum, Ruben Somsen

Silent payments

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User Rejected Soft Forks (URSFs)

May 07, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Soft fork activation

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Bitcoin Core 23.0

Apr 24, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core

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Burying Soft Forks

Feb 25, 2022

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Security Taproot

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The Mempool (And Why We Need It)

Nov 26, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Transaction relay policy Mining Incentives

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Bitcoin Was Under ATTACK!

Nov 11, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Security problems P2p

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Schnorr Signatures and Libsecp256k1

Sep 18, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Libsecp256k1 Schnorr signatures

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Bitcoin Core 22.0 Explained

Sep 13, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Hwi Anonymity networks Bech32

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Basis of Lightning Technology 12

Aug 13, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Offers

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Replace-by-Fee Bug (CVE-2021-31876)

May 21, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Rbf Cves Bitcoin core

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Taproot Activation Update: Speedy Trial And The LOT=True Client

Apr 23, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Taproot

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Scaling Bitcoin With The Erlay Protocol

Apr 08, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Erlay Minisketch

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Explaining RGB Tokens

Mar 26, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum, Ruben Somsen

Client side validation

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Explaining Segregated Witness

Mar 18, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Segwit Soft fork activation

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Taproot Activation with Speedy Trial

Mar 12, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Taproot Soft fork activation

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Hardware Wallet Integration in Bitcoin Core and HWI

Mar 05, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Hardware wallet Hwi

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Taproot activation and LOT=true vs LOT=false

Feb 26, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Taproot Soft fork activation

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Explaining Bitcoin Addresses

Feb 19, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Scripts addresses Bech32

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Replace By Fee (RBF)

Feb 05, 2021

Aaron van Wirdum, Sjors Provoost

Rbf

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Compact Client Side Filtering (Neutrino)

Jan 29, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Compact block filters

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Bitcoin Core 0.21.0

Jan 21, 2021

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Anonymity networks Eclipse attacks Compact block filters Signet Descriptors

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Why Open Source Matters For Bitcoin

Dec 18, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Reproducible builds

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RSK, Federated Sidechains And Powpeg

Dec 11, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Sidechains

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Erebus Attacks And How To Stop Them With ASMAP

Nov 19, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Security enhancements Security problems

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Bitcoin Eclipse Attacks And How To Stop Them

Nov 13, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Eclipse attacks

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Open Timestamps: Leveraging Bitcoin's Security For All Data

Nov 05, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Proof systems

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What Is Utreexo?

Oct 30, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum, Ruben Somsen

Utreexo

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Sync Bitcoin Faster! Assume UTXO

Oct 23, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Assumeutxo

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Bitcoin Core 0.21 Supports Tor V3

Oct 15, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Anonymity networks

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Accounts for Bitcoin, Easypaysy!

Oct 02, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Silent payments

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Explaining Signet

Sep 25, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Signet

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What is Miniscript

Jul 31, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Miniscript

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Breaking Down Taproot Activation Options

Jul 25, 2020

Sjors Provoost, Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin core Taproot Soft fork activation

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FUD (Perceived Vs RealRisks in Bitcoin)

Aaron van Wirdum, Eric Voskuil, Jimmy Song, Rodolfo Novak

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