Ready for Merge

<p>Meet Tomás, one of the lead maintainers of Ethrex, a minimalist Ethereum execution layer (EL) client written in Rust.</p><p>Before working in crypto, Tomás was a software engineer working on projects related to...

<p>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 quantum attacks on...

<p>In this episode, Christine D. Kim discusses Bitcoin developer community-building, culture, and events with niftynei from Bitcoin++ and Charlie Spears from Blockspace Media. </p><p>This interview was recorded on April...

<p>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 alongside the...

<p>Meet Mark, a developer working for Sigma Prime on the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) client, Lighthouse.</p><p>In 2013, Mark first heard about Bitcoin in a rap song. Three years later, the DAO hack introduced him to...

<p>Meet Preston, a developer working for Offchain Labs on the Ethereum consensus layer (CL) client, Prysm.</p><p>Preston’s biggest contribution to Ethereum development is co-founding the Prysm team. Preston, along with...

<p>Summary:</p><p>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 debate...

<p>Summary:</p><p>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 Florentine...

<p>Summary:</p><p>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 headliner...

<p>Meet “Floppy”, a full-time Bitcoin developer working on a decentralized privacy solution for Bitcoin called Joinstr. </p><p>To unlock greater usability and resilience for Joinstr and other Bitcoin privacy solutions...

<p>Christine D. Kim gives another bi-weekly brief on the important updates in Bitcoin and Ethereum development.</p><p>On the Bitcoin side, she covers two new pull requests merged into Bitcoin Core over the past week...

<p>Meet Murch, a full-time Bitcoin protocol developer who co-founded his own Bitcoin development company called LocalHost Research.</p><p>As part of his day job, Murch is one of six editors who oversee the Bitcoin...

<p>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) Github...

<p>Meet Calvin, a Bitcoin protocol developer sponsored by OpenSats, who is working on the Utreexo project.</p><p>Utreexo is a hash-based accumulator for the Bitcoin UTXO set. In non-technical terms, it's a way to store...

<p>In this bi-weekly brief on Bitcoin and Ethereum protocol development, Christine discusses:</p><p>1. The activation of the second Blob Parameter Only (BPO) hard fork on Ethereum</p><p>2. Three Bitcoin Improvement...