Episode notes
Nicolas Dorier talks about the early days of BTCPay Server, activating SegWit before it was cool on NBitcoin, contributing to TumbleBit, writing a book about coding Bitcoin projects in C#, and working with colored coins.
Time stamps:
00:00:00 - Intro: BitPay obsolete, BTCPay at six years
00:01:48 - Best hair in Bitcoin and the 404 page
00:03:07 - Stealing the BTCPay hoodie in Riga
00:04:23 - Wife-designed logo (mountains vs French interpretation)
00:05:43 - BitcoinTalk archaeology and dead address standards
00:08:19 - Wallet of Satoshi and NBXplorer under Bitrefill
00:09:54 - NBitcoin layers: library, explorer, then BTCPay
00:11:06 - "Simpler than BTCPay" competitors and software gravity
00:15:31 - Kukks issue #50: please add Ethereum (2018)
00:16:32 - Kukks later removing altcoins into plugins
00:18:48 - Pavlenex issue #53: U2F with Ledger and Trezor
00:21:29 - 2017 scaling fear, selling before BCH, anti-SegWit2x
00:23:31 - SegWit preference list: BIP 148 / BIP 149
00:24:42 - BIP-EXDS and BitPay pushing 2x on merchants
00:26:07 - BTCPay as a SegWit2x reaction
00:27:20 - When the 2x fork effort collapsed
00:28:33 - Developers vs companies vs miners in the war
00:30:56 - Jeff Garzik, the activation bug, VeriBlock
00:35:31 - Newbie confusion, CoinDesk, and who actually cared
00:37:24 - Programming the Blockchain in C# and Microsoft trainer roots
00:39:24 - Adam nopara73, Hidden Wallet, Avalonia, Wasabi focus
00:40:36 - Tumbler legal risk and Wasabi's structure
00:41:33 - Stratis, TumbleBit, and the .NET full node detour
00:43:28 - Regretting name association with a shitcoin pump
00:46:14 - Library feedback that still helped Bitcoin tooling
00:48:24 - No time for altcoin tourism; learn via libraries
00:51:58 - Poelstra, Nick, and understanding crypto by using code
00:53:28 - Plugins, Kukks the mad scientist, NFC, LN Bank risk
00:58:05 - "Mistakes on mainnet are more memorable"
01:01:01 - Book tour: translations, Open Assets, colored coins chapter
01:03:59 - Rockstar Dev's pandemic contributor streams
01:06:17 - Ordinals as recycled colored-coin energy
01:08:31 - Inorganic fee spikes, spam framing, miner choice
01:10:57 - Outbid them; Litecoin Ordinals; thanking Ethereum for the NFT dump
01:14:28 - Teleburning NFTs onto Bitcoin and collector markets
01:17:03 - Fungibility, confidential assets, and why spam is hard to kill
01:19:40 - Why not Monero/Zcash; HODLing as behavioral money use
01:22:30 - Future focus: BTCPay daily work and Nostr Wallet Connect
01:24:19 - Prism-style splits and combinatorial tooling
01:26:53 - Local Bitcoin service providers for retail merchants
01:28:55 - Stable channels / DLCs instead of Tether for merchants
01:30:24 - Merchant app: keys local, switchable LSP infrastructure
01:32:38 - Sponsors already on BTCPay; Satochip still on Coinbase
01:35:06 - Favorite Final Fantasy and the long game digression
01:39:21 - Bitcoin as Shinra, Sephiroth as the real boss
01:48:41 - Grinding FF explains BTCPay patience
01:50:18 - Tomb Raider, PlayStation hacks, why their generation codes
01:52:34 - Closing
Time stamps:
00:00:00 - Intro: BitPay obsolete, BTCPay at six years
00:01:48 - Best hair in Bitcoin and the 404 page
00:03:07 - Stealing the BTCPay hoodie in Riga
00:04:23 - Wife-designed logo (mountains vs French interpretation)
00:05:43 - BitcoinTalk archaeology and dead address standards
00:08:19 - Wallet of Satoshi and NBXplorer under Bitrefill
00:09:54 - NBitcoin layers: library, explorer, then BTCPay
00:11:06 - "Simpler than BTCPay" competitors and software gravity
00:15:31 - Kukks issue #50: please add Ethereum (2018)
00:16:32 - Kukks later removing altcoins into plugins
00:18:48 - Pavlenex issue #53: U2F with Ledger and Trezor
00:21:29 - 2017 scaling fear, selling before BCH, anti-SegWit2x
00:23:31 - SegWit preference list: BIP 148 / BIP 149
00:24:42 - BIP-EXDS and BitPay pushing 2x on merchants
00:26:07 - BTCPay as a SegWit2x reaction
00:27:20 - When the 2x fork effort collapsed
00:28:33 - Developers vs companies vs miners in the war
00:30:56 - Jeff Garzik, the activation bug, VeriBlock
00:35:31 - Newbie confusion, CoinDesk, and who actually cared
00:37:24 - Programming the Blockchain in C# and Microsoft trainer roots
00:39:24 - Adam nopara73, Hidden Wallet, Avalonia, Wasabi focus
00:40:36 - Tumbler legal risk and Wasabi's structure
00:41:33 - Stratis, TumbleBit, and the .NET full node detour
00:43:28 - Regretting name association with a shitcoin pump
00:46:14 - Library feedback that still helped Bitcoin tooling
00:48:24 - No time for altcoin tourism; learn via libraries
00:51:58 - Poelstra, Nick, and understanding crypto by using code
00:53:28 - Plugins, Kukks the mad scientist, NFC, LN Bank risk
00:58:05 - "Mistakes on mainnet are more memorable"
01:01:01 - Book tour: translations, Open Assets, colored coins chapter
01:03:59 - Rockstar Dev's pandemic contributor streams
01:06:17 - Ordinals as recycled colored-coin energy
01:08:31 - Inorganic fee spikes, spam framing, miner choice
01:10:57 - Outbid them; Litecoin Ordinals; thanking Ethereum for the NFT dump
01:14:28 - Teleburning NFTs onto Bitcoin and collector markets
01:17:03 - Fungibility, confidential assets, and why spam is hard to kill
01:19:40 - Why not Monero/Zcash; HODLing as behavioral money use
01:22:30 - Future focus: BTCPay daily work and Nostr Wallet Connect
01:24:19 - Prism-style splits and combinatorial tooling
01:26:53 - Local Bitcoin service providers for retail merchants
01:28:55 - Stable channels / DLCs instead of Tether for merchants
01:30:24 - Merchant app: keys local, switchable LSP infrastructure
01:32:38 - Sponsors already on BTCPay; Satochip still on Coinbase
01:35:06 - Favorite Final Fantasy and the long game digression
01:39:21 - Bitcoin as Shinra, Sephiroth as the real boss
01:48:41 - Grinding FF explains BTCPay patience
01:50:18 - Tomb Raider, PlayStation hacks, why their generation codes
01:52:34 - Closing
