In this interview, we talked about:

• My history in Bitcoin open source development and how I came to found Brink
• Why I left Chaincode and struck out on his own
• Brink’s mandate and foundational purpose
• Lessons learned from the Bitcoin Foundation
• The future of Bitcoin Optech
• The state of funding for Bitcoin development
• The accessibility of Bitcoin protocol development today
• Whether the existence of financial incentives cannibalizes the intrinsic motivation to work on open source
• Why I work on Bitcoin
• Why ossification might be more remote than we expect
• Whether Bitcoin’s developer funding model exposes it to corporate capture
• The political implications of Bitcoin having a sole reference implementation
• The importance of distinguishing the validation element of Bitcoin Core from the other components
• Whether Bitcoin protocol development is meritocratic or technocratic.
• Why the structurelessness of Bitcoin core dev raises the barriers to entry
• Whether Bitcoin protocol development is adequately funded right now
• Whether developer funding equates to influence in the Bitcoin protocol development
• The dispersion of Bitcoin protocol development influence