Welcome to the Bitcoin Protocol Development Seminar
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- 1.Why did Satoshi put so much stress on the irreversibility of transactions?
- 2.What proposed role do SPV nodes play in the bitcoin ecosystem?
- 3.What do you think might happen if Satoshi returned to Bitcoin development?
- 1.How have show-stopping bugs or disruptions to the network been handled in the past?
- 1.In your opinion, what did Satoshi "invent" that was truly innovative?
- 2.What is a Sybil Attack, and how has it been solved in the past? How does proof of work enable Sybil resistance for new nodes joining the Bitcoin network?
- 3.What is the "fair exchange" problem, and how does it apply to the blockchain?
- 4.Why do the authors of Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree believe that bitcoin was ignored by academia for a long time? What reputation/relationship does bitcoin have with academia today?
- 1.How do you judge the merits or value of a good project/experiment?
- 2.Why do you think Bitcoin's creator remained anonymous and (as far as we know) chose not to profit from Bitcoin's success?
- 1.What do you think will happen when the block subsidy runs out?
- 1.Define the differences between a full node, pruned node, and an SPV node?
- 2.What are the incentives to run a full node? If I do run a full node, why accept incoming connections given that they come at a cost? What might those costs be?
- 3.What is the difference between the block propagation network and the transaction relay network? How does participating in one or the other impact your definition of a full node?
- 4.What are checkpoints and do we need them?
- 1.Do you believe that bitcoin needs to be competitive with visa/mastercard to succeed?
- 2.How do you think the bitcoin community might react to a centralized payment processor that does as many transactions per second as visa/mastercard?
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