Why funding open source is NOT philanthropy with Pavlenex | SLP734

About this episode

Pavlenex joins Stephan to discuss the strategic importance of funding open source in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

In this episode, Pavlenex joins Stephan to discuss the strategic importance of funding open source in the Bitcoin ecosystem. They explore how open source support benefits companies, the stages of open source project development, and recent updates on Stratum V2 and BTCPay Server. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:09) - Open source is not philanthropy (05:07) - Reaction to MARA Foundation’s initiative (06:40) - Stages of open source projects (11:51) - The necessity of economic incentives (16:42) - AI's impact on open source contributions (19:48) - “Upstream decisions, downstream impact” (24:33) - Open source as a complement to R&D (28:46) - Navigating corporate funding & control (31:14) - Identifying & supporting the right projects (35:56) - Directed grants vs Open grants (39:55) - The importance of supporting open source (42:41) - Updates on Stratum V2 (47:02) - Updates on BTCPay Server (48:47) - What is the Samrock protocol for BTCPay? Links: https://x.com/pavlenex https://x.com/pavlenex/status/2049122238033531339 Stephan Livera links: Follow me on X: @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe to Substack

People in this episode

Host: Stephan Livera

Guest: Pavlenex

Topics covered

• open source funding
• Bitcoin ecosystem
• economic incentives
• corporate funding
• Stratum V2 updates
• BTCPay Server updates

Keywords

• open source
• Bitcoin
• funding
• economic incentives
• Stratum V2
• BTCPay Server
• MARA Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MARA Foundation, Stratum V2, BTCPay Server, Samrock protocol

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