S17 E17: Lukas Hozda on BIP110, Bitcoin & Rust

About this episode

Lukas Hozda discusses his work at Braiins, BIP110, and the intersection of Bitcoin and Rust programming.

Lukas Hozda is the incumbent genius at Braiins mining: the Jack of all trades who's been with the company since he finished high school and can get assigned to any project. He wrote "Programming Bitcoin in Rust" and lately he's scrutinized BIP110. Time stamps: 00:00:46 – Introducing Lukas Hosoda, author and Rust developer at Braiins 00:03:08 – Discovering Bitcoin at age 12 and mining 00:07:04 – Career at Braiins 00:09:43 – Braiins Office Mining & ASICs 00:13:01 – Braiins Mini Miner (BMM101) 00:15:16 – Drivechains & Sidechains 00:17:49 – Bitcoin News & Braiins Blog 00:19:01 – Braiins HashPower Product 00:21:39 – Mining Decentralization 00:22:51 – Cake Wallet & Zcash Giveaway 00:24:01 – Terraria Plugin Development 00:27:44 – SideShift & Swapping 00:31:11 – Breadwallet & Node Mapping 00:33:38 – Joining Braiins as a Rust Programmer 00:36:06 – Writing the Book "Building Bitcoin in Rust" 00:39:43 – BIP 110/444 Research 00:40:55 – How Bitcoin's Gossip Network Works 00:44:31 – Mempool & Private Transactions 00:45:54 – Marathon Slipstream . 00:47:10 – History of OP_RETURN & Arbitrary Data on Bitcoin 00:51:19 – Spam, Transaction Fees & Block Size 00:55:18 – UTXO Set Growth 00:57:50 – ZK…

People in this episode

Host: Vlad Costea

Guest: Lukas Hozda

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• BIP110
• Rust programming
• Mining
• Decentralization
• Blockchain technology

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• BIP110
• Rust
• Braiins
• Mining
• Blockchain
• Decentralization
• Programming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Braiins

Products: Braiiins Mini Miner (BMM101), Cake Wallet, Zcash, Breadwallet, Marathon Slipstream, SideShift, Nostr, Bitcoin, Ethereum

Books & works: Programming Bitcoin in Rust, Building Bitcoin in Rust

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