So software doesn't really break.
Everything You Don't Understand About Bitcoin Development - MURCH (THE Bitcoin Podcast)
"If someone wants to change Bitcoin in a way that is detrimental to even a minority of the Bitcoin users, they're probably going to be unsuccessful because there's going to be vehement pushback."
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2 If you had a piece of perfect software, 3 it would continue to work forever 4 if it were kept in the same environment.
5 The problem is in computers that the entire environment keeps 6 changing around the software that has been written.
7 So when a new chipset comes out, there'll 8 be new drivers for the chipset.
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If you had a piece of perfect software,
it would continue to work forever
if it were kept in the same environment.
The problem is in computers that the entire environment keeps
changing around the software that has been written.
So when a new chipset comes out, there'll
be new drivers for the chipset.
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"If someone wants to change Bitcoin in a way that is detrimental to even a minority of the Bitcoin users, they're probably going to be unsuccessful because there's going to be vehement pushback."
On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with MURCH . Murch is a computer scientist, engineer at Chaincode labs, co-host of Bitdevs and the Chaincode Podcast, and moderator of the bitcoin stack exchange, answering literally thousands of questions about Bitcoin over the years. Murch and I discuss the Bitcoin development process, changing vs maintaining Bitcoin, ossification, privacy trade-offs, address reuse, and potential improvements like silent payments, quantum resistance, bitcoin tail emissions, ZK Roll-Ups, covenants, and Layer 2 scalability solutions like Lightning, ecash, fedimint, etc, plus their trade-offs. Murch also reviews the upcoming Bitcoin Core 28 release and what it means for you.
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