As I attended the Mit Bitcoin Expo at the beginning of this month I was able to sit with the developer of Bitcoin Core Antoine Poinsot.
Currently at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was previously at Wizardsardine, a Bitcoin security company behind Revault, a vault based on pre-operated transactions, and Liana, a Bitcoin portfolio based on miniscript. Antoine’s first commission was merged to Bitcoin Core on May 16, 2019.
We discussed the great consent cleaning proposal that Antoine is advancing as a potential Fork Soft of the Bitcoin Protocol modeled on the original Matt Coral of the 2019 proposal.
Bitcoin has suffered from numerous bugs over the years, with some remarkably serious events such as the inflation bug of 2010. There are still some bad bugs in the protocol, not so bad, but still bad.
Antoine talks about these different protocol bugs and its proposed solutions to deal with them. Some are probably simply on foot guns that are easy to explain if you know about it, but some of them are very serious defects that could present a real risk for the Bitcoin network.
You can watch the interview here: