Lessons learnt from nearly a decade of working on Bitcoin infrastructure
Lessons learnt from nearly a decade working on Bitcoin infrastructure
Jad has spent close to 10 years deep in the trenches of Bitcoin's low-level infrastructure—building and researching everything from nodes and mining pools to indexers/block explorers, wallets, transaction libraries, and script interpreters. This is a chance to hear the unfiltered insights and battle scars from someone who's actually gotten his hands dirty with the Bitcoin engine under the hood.
Here's what we'll cover:
• PoW > PoS — The beauty of simplicity
• Pseudonymity > anonymity — What actually works in practice
• UTXO model > account-based model — Why Bitcoin's model makes sense
• Fungibility: legal not technical — Where the real battles are fought
• Soft forks are more dangerous than hard forks — The counterintuitive truth
• LN is not the silver bullet it's advertised to be — The Lightning Network reality check
• Stability > "Innovation" — Don't build your house on sand
Bring questions, bring skepticism. This will be raw and real.
