 that I would be joining Christine D. Kim on her podcast Ready for Merge for a series on Bitcoin development.

Our first episode of that series is now out. This fortnight, we talked about:

bitcoin

podcasts

bitcoin_beginners

A few days ago, I [mentioned](https://stacker.news/items/1568962) that I would be joining Christine D. Kim on her podcast Ready for Merge for a series on Bitcoin development.

Our first episode of that series is now out. This fortnight, we talked about:

- TabConf 2026
- Ethereum’s client funding crisis and compare it to the Bitcoin developer funding situation
- Bitcoin Core’s v32 branch-off and the Bitcoin Core release process in general
- AI’s role in Bitcoin development
- The security engineering challenges of the past few months