The Bitcoin Game #57: BCH Lead Dev Amaury Séchet

Welcome to episode 57 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I’m someone who feels a bit like a Bitcoin Maximalist, yet I still really wanted to learn about Amaury Séchet, lead developer of Bitcoin Cash (EDIT: note it's been pointed out that Amaury is the lead dev of Bitcoin ABC, the main client used for BCH, but he isn't technically the lead dev for BCH - apologies for the inaccurate wording). I like that many of Amaury's opinions seem fairly independent, rather than sticking to a party line. In this long-form interview, we talk about Amaury's initial interest in Bitcoin, why he started Bitcoin ABC, the software behind Bitcoin Cash, and what he saw as three critical mistakes he believed would prevent a big block fork from becoming the majority chain at launch. So BCH haters, put down the pitchforks for a second and give this a listen to better understand the French Bitcoiner known as Deadalnix. EPISODE LINKS Amaury on Twitter https://twitter.com/deadalnix Thomson M05 (School Computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_MO5 HACK (Facebook Programming Langauge) https://hacklang.org/ D (Programming Language) https://dlang.org Cypress Financial Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Cypriot_financial_crisis Bitcoin ABC https://www.bitcoinabc.org Extension Blocks https://www.coindesk.com/purse-proposal-touts-extension-blocks-bitcoin-scaling-solution ViaBTC https://www.viabtc.com Segwit Is Not Great, by Amaury Séchet https://www.deadalnix.me/2016/10/17/segwit-is-not-great Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA) https://news.bitcoin.com/the-bitcoin-cash-community-debates-future-difficulty-adjustments Free Trader’s Github Blog https://ftrader.github.io Emergent Consensus https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-bitcoin-unlimiteds-emergent-consensus-gamble The Cathedral and the Bazaar (musings on Linux and Open Source...)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar Tokens on Bitcoin Cash https://www.yours.org/content/overview-of-tokens-for-bitcoin-cash--bch--d2f928455dca Cash Shuffle (BCH mixing protocol for fungibility) https://cashshuffle.com Grin (Nimble Wimble implementation) https://grin-tech.org STAY IN TOUCH Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com [email protected] SPONSOR While much of a Bitcoiner's time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own the world famous Bitcoin Keychain, the growingly popular Litecoin Keychain, or even your own Bitcoin Fork - Pen. As Seen On The Guardian • TechCrunch • Engadget • Ars Technica • Popular Mechanics Inforwars • Maxim • Inc. • Vice • RT • Bitcoin Magazine • VentureBeat PRI • CoinDesk • Washington Post • Forbes • Fast Company Bitcoin Keychains - BKeychain.com Litecoin Keychains - LKeychain.com Bitcoin Fork Pens - BitcoinForks.com All of the above on Amazon - BitcoinNovelties.com Here are some tipping addresses (Lightning tipping, coming soon!) Bitcoin (Segwit) tipping address: 3AYvXZseExRn3Dum8z9tFUk9jtQK6KMU4g Litecoin tipping address: MCszxWfm4y4Ke39vJZLXwULLRgVmBfJy8z Bitcoin Cash tipping address: 1EXYkuuQ49uEioTpHY4ZY99edJczbUqQfu Ethereum tipping address: 0xB8b169192A74746050806671710aeB72F01F6ED1 CREDITS All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell. The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos. Note: We've recently migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) from Soundcloud to Libsyn. So if you notice the Soundcloud numbers have dropped off recently, that's the reason.