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Fun With Bitcoin E109 Ben Kaufman

December 3, 2020

Devchat! We speak with Ben about being a developer in the Bitcoin space, from Bisq to Hardware wallets!

Unlicensed software engineer. Coding
I’m a software developer focusing on Bitcoin related projects. For the last year and a half, I have been contributing to various Bitcoin projects, such as Specter, HWI, Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Interface and Bisq. I have also written several articles which you can find in the Blog section or on Medium.
Bitcoin made sense right away
Banking system puts too many regulations on youth, no access to credit cards
Shitcoins, What got you? i got fooled by the tech narrative
Contributed to bitcoin core HWI
Contributed to Bisq
Specter is the global name comes from the cypherpunk manifesto
Specter desktop - webserver/web interface UI (this is whats installed on the mynode)
easy UI
self hosted multi sig solution
allowing you to validate with your own node
DIY specter - we need an official case
Whats down the line? finishing bug fixes, and cleaning code base
Main features, easy export of transaction data, electrum import/export support
Airgapped signer with mobile phone


Twitter Contact:  @_benkaufman

Twitter & Telegram @Coinicarus

Email me at coinicarus@funwithbitcoin.com

Intro music by @CryptoContagion

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