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.