### Answers to Q&A session 1. I am working on multiple things right now and one of them in Joinstr which is a coinjoin implementation. Someone had paid me in bitcoin on darknet a few years back and it was the first time I came to know about bitcoin. 2. BIP process is centralized with 2 editors gatekeeping what gets merged and what doesn't. It could be improved if there are multiple directories. 3. Bitcoin Core: I learnt a lot of things interacting with developers however the politics and drama sucks. 4. Lot of scope for improvement. Three things that I can suggest right now: Remove all maintainers, make them lead reviewers and use bot to merge pull requests based on reviews. Stop maintaining bitcoin-qt because there are better UI/UX for using bitcoin core. Focus more on improving privacy in p2p, mempool, wallet etc. 5. Alternative implementations should be funded so that they get more activity from devs and users. 6. Ossification is not happening in our lifetime. There is still so much left to improve in Bitcoin. Even L2s require some changes in Bitcoin. 7. Yes its possible for attackers to open malicious pull requests that look normal. This is why reviewers are more important than commiters in bitcoin. 8. Funding could be improved and I dont like that its influenced by a few people and their opinions about your projects or sometimes not even project but you. 9. Process to add a new maintainer in core is centralized and political as fuck. We could surely improve this and I have tried my best but failed to change anything. Vasil Dimov's pull request proves my point and I am disappointed that he had to go through all of that. 10. Nostr is protocol for clients and relays to communicate using some json events. Its defined in several NIPs. 11. I learnt about this a few months back when I joined their telegram group. I am working on joinstr which is a coinjoin implementation. 12. I find openordex interesting and other bitcoin projects that are interested in expermenting with it. 13. Working on a coinjoin implemenation using real identity isnt safe so I decided to be anon 14. One bitcoin core maintainer had used my real name in a comment on Github. He deleted it later although I was disappointed by others who think doxxing isnt a big deal because it did not happen with them. 15. I write blog posts about privacy, shitpost a lot on twitter, working on joinstr and contribute to several projects if see any opportunity. 16. I like almost all privacy projects except if you work with chainalysis or dishonest about things. I think bitcoin projects should use i2p more than Tor. 17. Run full node but be aware of all the settings, bugs etc., use coinjoin and do not share information about your transactions on social media. 18. Sorry I dont want to comment on each coinjoin implementation but I recently wrote 2 thread about joinmarket and whirlpool. They all have their issues and joinmarket was the first coinjoin I used long back. I started working on joinstr when tornado cash dev was arrested because nostr was simple enough to build coinjoin implementation on top of it, there is no need for centralized coordinator and I learn a lot developing it. 19. I have been experimenting with inscriptions personally, initiially I was active in discord to help users with bitcoin core related issues and presently working on 2 projects that involved inscriptions. p2p exchange and coinage.digital 20. The patch is useless and I dont understand why some people are so motivated to censor things in bitcoin. 21. Yes 22. I find OP_TX initially reduced to OP_CTV interesting because it will be easier to review, more probability to get consensus and better approach to add general covenants in bitcoin. 23. It was controversial for all wrong reasons and none of them were technical. Lot of users and devs overreacted. Some were not happy with the way Jeremy tried to approach the activation.