What critical infrastructure is being worked on? A multitude of exchanges (preferably decentralised), secure wallets with intuitive user interfaces and the latest features (SegWit, RBF, CPFP), ATMs, and educational projects. What are the next big upgrades or projects in Bitcoin development? Schnorr signatures, signature aggregation, MAST, sidechains and drivechains, Taproot, and Graftroot. Are there block size increases in the roadmap?

Mailing list: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/
Other Resources: https://bitcoincore.org/en/contribute/

More on MAST:
https://bitcointechtalk.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-merklized-abstract-syntax-tree-mast-33fdf2da5e2f
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0114.mediawiki

Note: When I’ve used Google Hangouts for recording Patreon Q&A sessions, the audio is sometimes slightly behind the video. I am now recording separately from Google Hangouts as well.

The first and third set of questions are from the patron-only live Q&A which took place on February 24th 2018. The second set of questions are from the patron-only live Q&A which took place on December 16th 2017. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.

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He is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters.

THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Internet-Money-collection-Andreas-Antonopoulos/dp/1537000454/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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MASTERING BITCOIN: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042

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  1. THE TRUTH! CVE-2018-17144 vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core is very suspicious and the reason I am out of bitcoin and why everyone else should be out of it too! Its been compromised! take the crash on 11th of October 2018 for example! It would make complete sense for all the duplicated coins to be converted into Altcoins as well then simultaneously sell everything off at the same time when bad news is expected thereby covering up the sell off of the duplicated coins! BITCOIN HAS BEEN COMPROMISED and I challenge people to prove me wrong! REBUILD Bitcoin with mimblewimble integrated and lets start over because bitcoin is broken! forget the greed and REBUILD

  2. I think Hard Fork to increase block size is still early. Currently blockchain will be adding 100GB per year after segwit. And bitcoin network is performing well with this limit (mempool is low). 100GB per year is just comfortable for most considering 1TB hard disk is still a norm. And to download 160GB of current blockchain size it takes around and day and no extra cost in India. I think we should wait till average people start owning bigger hard disk and network bandwidth becomes better. I think we should wait till atleast 2019 end before increasing block size.

  4. No way near enough exchanges. The only spur- of- the- moment place to but bitcoin is coinbase. The few decentralized exchanges have no activity on them to speak of. Need a bustling, easy system of user friendly tools for lightning, buying/ selling/ swapping/ storing.

  9. write down what I googled about the major upgrades here. 1. BIP 98: Fast Merkel Tree 2. BIP 114: MAST( Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree) 3. BIP 8: Version bits with lock-in by height

  16. Awesome content but audio has a lot of room for improvement.
    I go to this channel for definitive information. Only if better room acoustic (foams to minimize echo chamber effect) and even a Blue Yeti mic is used with some minimal effort to audio edit, this will make videos 20x better / more bearable. Thumbs up if you agree. ?

  18. …for a second I thought I was listening to a Ripple Q&A…then I heard the plan to increase the block size…then I got confused…but it just confirmed I was on a Bitcoin Q&A…phew !
    Thanks Andreas 🙂

  27. So glad you brought up ease of use on wallets. This is a major setback but it seems to be back of the list for most people when it really shouldn't be. Ease of use can attract more interest and improve adoption.

  33. Seriously, smartphones need an upgrade with some hardware thing. They managed to integrate cameras. Why not some kind of universal standard hardware wallet – extra display on the backside of the phone? extra physical switch to connect/unconnect – some contact point to make a payment? maybe some Smartphone developer or smartphone case developer might pick this up – feel free.

  34. Hi Andreas, awesome information. I have 2 question. 1) what is your insight about the blocksteam satellite network? 2) what do you think about Bitcoin Atom with Atomic swap technology?
    Thanks in advance with high Regards

  35. I want to be able to take my phone, hold it against a cashiers device and my payment with Bitcoin is done. Like I do with my plastic card already. 30$ daily work without putting in a pin code. 30$+ pin is required… Amounts 200$+ (I can decide the limit) I must order 24 hours b4 spending(you would wonder how many things I didn't buy because I could think about it 24 hours) .

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