Open Blockchain Development Culture
In this talk, Andreas discusses open blockchain development culture. He reviews the clash of cultures from those with differing backgrounds, from finance backgrounds to software development backgrounds. Various projects have taken different approaches to building these protocols. Is there a right way to build open blockchain software?
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Software and finance
2:23 The cultures of the people being involved in both of these spaces are very different
4:20 Fundamental shift in how we see money and have seen money for centuries
6:33 Software
11:00 We're making this software transition into the real world without yet having the engineering discipline, which is a bit of a problem. How do you fix that problem?
12:23 Consensus critical systems
14:39 Difficulty retargeting algorithm
17:59 Writing code for Blockchains is very difficult
19:38 It's almost impossible to introduce change that will not be controversial
20:36 Difficulty bomb
21:38 You don't build it by magically being right the first time
22:58 The Lightning Network
24:02 With a few more great ideas, approaches, and a bit more courage, we are finally going to develop the kind of engineering culture that even bankers can respect
This talk was delivered on December 12th, 2019 for the La Bit Conf Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: / aantonop
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. Andreas has written two best-selling technical books for programmers, “Mastering Bitcoin” and “Mastering Ethereum”. He has published “The Internet of Money” series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies.
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