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S1E30 Ready for Merge Ep. 30 👾
Christine D. Kim shares the final bi-weekly brief of Season 1 of the Ready for Merge podcast, recapping the latest developments in Bitcoin and Ethereum protocol development.She also breaks down the…
S1E29 Ready for Merge Ep. 29 👾
Meet Ben, a developer who works full-time on the Ethereum execution layer (EL) client, Nethermind. In just over two years, Ben has become one of the top three contributors to the Nethermind codebase…
S1E28 Ready for Merge Ep. 28 👾
In this episode of Ready for Merge, Christine D. Kim shares updates from the Soldøgn Interop, a week-long gathering of Ethereum protocol developers and researchers organized by the Ethereum…
S1E27 Ready for Merge Ep. 27 👾
In this Ready for Merge episode, Christine D. Kim interviews Philip Ngo, a developer working on the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) client, Lodestar. Phil recounts his transition from the Canadian…
S1E26 Ready for Merge Ep. 26 👾
In this Ready for Merge episode, Christine D. Kim discusses the fallout from the KelpDAO and Layer Zero exploit. For many, this incident is radically redefining what decentralised finance (DeFi)…
S1E25 Ready for Merge Ep. 25 👾
Meet Tomás, one of the lead maintainers of Ethrex, a minimalist Ethereum execution layer (EL) client written in Rust.Before working in crypto, Tomás was a software engineer working on projects…
S1E24 Ready for Merge Ep. 24 👾
Christine D. Kim shares high-level updates on the upgrades planned for Bitcoin Core and Ethereum. She also dives into groundbreaking findings by the Google Quantum AI team on the feasibility of…
S1E23 Ready for Merge Ep. 23 👾
In this episode, Christine D. Kim discusses Bitcoin developer community-building, culture, and events with niftynei from Bitcoin++ and Charlie Spears from Blockspace Media. This interview was…
S1E22 Ready for Merge Ep. 22 👾
In this episode of Ready for Merge, Christine D. Kim shares a biweekly brief on the latest Bitcoin and Ethereum protocol developments, covering Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam and Hegota upgrades…
S1E21 Ready for Merge Ep. 21 👾
Meet Mark, a developer working for Sigma Prime on the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) client, Lighthouse.In 2013, Mark first heard about Bitcoin in a rap song. Three years later, the DAO hack…
S1E20 Ready for Merge Ep. 20 👾
Meet Preston, a developer working for Offchain Labs on the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) client, Prysm.Preston’s biggest contribution to Ethereum development is co-founding the Prysm team. Preston,…
S1E19 Ready for Merge Ep. 19 👾
Summary:In this bi-weekly brief, Christine D. Kim breaks down the latest developments in Bitcoin and Ethereum protocol development. She covers the upcoming Bitcoin Core v31 release and the growing…
S1E18 Ready for Merge Ep. 18 👾
Summary:In this episode, Christine D. Kim discusses the Hegota execution layer (EL) headliner selection with two Ethereum developers: Jannik Luhn, Researcher and Engineer at Brainbot, and Justin…
S1E17 Ready for Merge Ep. 17 👾
Summary:In this episode of Ready for Merge, Christine D. Kim sits down with Ethereum Foundation researcher Jihoon Song and Miga Labs founder Leonardo Bautista-Gomez to debate the two consensus-layer…
S1E16 Ready for Merge Ep. 16 👾
Meet “Floppy”, a full-time Bitcoin developer working on a decentralized privacy solution for Bitcoin called Joinstr. To unlock greater usability and resilience for Joinstr and other Bitcoin privacy…
S1E15 Ready for Merge Ep. 15 👾
Christine D. Kim gives another bi-weekly brief on the important updates in Bitcoin and Ethereum development.On the Bitcoin side, she covers two new pull requests merged into Bitcoin Core over the…
S1E14 Ready for Merge Ep. 14 👾
Meet Murch, a full-time Bitcoin protocol developer who co-founded his own Bitcoin development company called LocalHost Research.As part of his day job, Murch is one of six editors who oversee the…
S1E13 BWB: Glamsterdam Gas Repricing EIPs & X Account Hacks
In this bi-weekly brief, Christine D. Kim provides updates on the scoping process for the Glamsterdam upgrade. She also highlights updates to the Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)…
S1E12 MTD: Calvin Kim (Utreexo)
Meet Calvin, a Bitcoin protocol developer sponsored by OpenSats, who is working on the Utreexo project.Utreexo is a hash-based accumulator for the Bitcoin UTXO set. In non-technical terms, it's a way…
S1E11 BWB: The Final Act of the Fusaka Upgrade & Why Everyone Wants to Fork Bitcoin Right Now
In this bi-weekly brief on Bitcoin and Ethereum protocol development, Christine discusses:1. The activation of the second Blob Parameter Only (BPO) hard fork on Ethereum2. Three Bitcoin Improvement…
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