Navigating by the stars under cloudy skies — decentralize.

I'm concerned about human freedom, decentralization of power, individual empowerment, privacy and self-sovereignty.

Bitcoin and open source software play a key part in striving for these causes around the world that are increasingly important every day.

Bitcoin isn't perfect. Among other things, it needs further decentralization, continued vigilance, review, bug-fixing, updates and maintenance, and improved robustness, performance, privacy, documentation and user experience.

As a contributor to Bitcoin Core since 2019 and BIP editor since 2024, I pursue a long-term, evergreen role of help and service, ideally with a measure of kindness, wisdom and forbearance.

My time is invested in reviewing and context-packing the changes to the project, observing the process closely, and reading or reviewing most of the opened and merged pull requests.

The idea is two-fold: to potentially catch bugs or breaking changes merged into Bitcoin Core, and be prepared to help maintain the project, if needed. I sometimes propose changes to the code as well.

See my articles for more about contributing to and running Bitcoin Core.