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Gloria Zhao is a Bitcoin Core maintainer. In this interview, we discuss upgrading Bitcoin vs ossifying the protocol, ordinals and mempool “spam”, and the theory & ‘power’ of core developers.

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Mentioned in the interview:

• Bitcoin Core | Github

• Brink.dev

• Eclipse attacks | Optech 

• bitcoin/doc/fuzzing.md at master

• Fanquake - Michael Ford

• Ava Chow

• Mempool.space

• Replace-by-fee (RBF) | BitcoinOptech

• OCEAN

• Dust | BitcoinOptech

• Anna Chekhovich on Twitter: “At the @ACF_int we relied on Wasabi when protecting our donors from Russian government’s surveillance and risks of imprisonment…”

• Chaincode Labs

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