I'm concerned about human rights and 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, maintenance, and improved robustness, performance, privacy, scaling, documentation and user experience.

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

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

The idea is to help move improvements forward, catch bugs or breaking changes, and be able to help maintain the project. I propose fixes to the code as well.

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