Bani: Sto
Language (s): rust
Contributes to: CTV initial models, CHAR
Work (S/ED) in: Zbd
Before Bitcoin, STU spent his days working as a Windows official and in information technology support. Its routine consists of long days of sitting in a chair that participates in monitoring maintenance, reconfiguing systems, and re -setting passwords for the users he forgot.
This type of function in which a problem occurs has actually required you to draw your attention in a purposeful way that you can happen to the point that you are sitting in the hope that something like this will happen most of the time.
STU spent most of the days in browsing through Reddit threads during its abundant quantities of stopping. But it turned out that he was not such a bad scenario at the end, as this was what Sto found himself in Bitcoin area around 2017.
Like many bitcoin coin, or rather by bitcoiners, during that period, STU was absorbed into the raw currency (ICO) and Altcoin mad at the time. Also, like many bitcoin centers at the time, it ended financially through some of the bad investments in unknown random projects that he may have not investigated in the first place.
Inevitably, bitcoin pulled it below the similar rabbit hole.
After a few years of learning more deeply about Bitcoin, STU reached a period of frenzy and stopped working at the height of the Taurus 2021 to find opportunities to work in the bitcoin area. By that time, the rust programming language has become widely used in various Bitcoin projects and libraries, so SU started learning so that it can contribute to Bitcoin.
Near the end of 2022, his search for a job in space ended when he was appointed by Michael Tildwell to work in ZbdThe company that merges Bitcoin payments into video games using the Lightning Network.
Work in Zbd
STU Devops work in ZBD, but in his spare time he continued to work on typical rust projects.
“Most of my side projects are linked to what I was interested in at the time, as I was working in ZBD, I started making games that could use Bitcoin,” Sto told Bitcoin.
To start, he built a multi -player web game, Rain.runBased on players who collect lightning bolts for bonuses in Satoshis, to learn more about construction applications that should talk to each other over a network. After that, it is simple Connect4 The game played on Nostr Protocol.
“(This) was a great way to learn how Nostr works,” said SU.
“I attended BTC ++ in Austin in 2024, which was the release of texts.” The four -day conference was the most intense forum for discussion on bitcoin and covenants ’improvements in the past year or so.
“It seems that there is, at the time, a kind of consensus that develops for bitcoin's covenants,” SU.
He added: “This made me really interested in how Script Bitcoin and (led) to experience Taproot and Bitcoin textual programs …”.
“It really didn't end up, but it was a great way to learn how the texts work.”
Tabconf, payment pools, and CTV
In 2024, STU Tabconf attended another conference focusing on developers, which is held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. The talks in Atlanta also revolve around the covenants.
Like all conferences focusing on developers, Tabconf placed on Hackathon. STU chose to build a project Using the DLCS contracts, which enabled users to bet on the result of chess matches. It has become very clear that SU builds programs about large numbers of pre -transactions that have made a lot of complexity to developers.
He said that the discussion of this problem is: “It seems that the answer to this problem is Checktemplyify (CTV). Since I wanted to learn more about the covenants, CTV looked as a good place to start, so I started combining CTV into my DLC project. I couldn't believe that in everything …”
Sto went to build a The initial model of the concept From the payment collection using CTV. Payment pools are a basic system for layer 2 with groups of two shares control over one non -prize bitcoin output.
“One of the ways we can measure bitcoin to be used by everyone, without using central third parties, is the sharing of UTXO.” “Payment pools are a great way to do this, especially in addition to other layer 2 solutions such as lightning or astronomy.”
Hurry
The covenants have become a controversial problem in the discussion about the place of bitcoin to go forward. Every developer has their personal opinion on them, and SU is not an exception.
He said: “I think that the use of covenants to replace pre -signed transactions alone is an amazing improvement for developers to build faster and safer.” “It removes a lot of interaction and friction for users, so there is less need to be online or coordination with other parties, which can improve the user experience in a large amount.”
I asked him if this is what attracted him to build proof of initial concepts and models using CTV instead of other era proposals.
“I was attracted to CTV because it was very easy to implement in the applications that I wanted to build. Once I built a payment collection with CTV, I was planning to do the same for all the covenant proposals. I discovered how exactly got the job with CAT, but it took a very long time to work, and added more code.
He said: “I am completely sure that there is a consensus between the protocol developers that there is no danger to Bitcoin if we enable CTV …”. “So it seems that the intermediary is that users do not want it. But users already use applications and protocols such as lightning and Multisig Vaults that will be improved by CTV. So … I think it should be a priority for the next soft fork …”
When asked about the controversial current nature of discussion about the next soft and thorn, and how the atmosphere could be improved, he had this saying:
“Someone needs to get Silor to tweet an emoji and everything will be fine.”
“But seriously, I don't really know. Maybe more about the events that people can discuss face to face, it does not seem to be a technical reason we do not make progress, and more than just a politician,” he said in a more dangerous tone.
“I think some of the frequency is about making any change at all to Bitcoin. The reason is that it is difficult to change it is a great feature of Bitcoin, but it should not extend to completely soft chocolate. It causes a lot of pressure on some developers of Bitcoin, especially Bitcoin Core. Change.”
the future
STU recently participated in the Bitcoin Open Source Software (Boss) by SAINCODE LABS, a program that was designed as a way to new developers in the Bitcoin Environmental System to cut their teeth and develop a deeper understanding of construction on Bitcoin.
To move forward in SU, it will contribute to the Char network, which is a somewhat radar efforts to build a new platform for Bitcoin led by Jeremy Robin, the developer who designed and suggested CTV. He plans to continue working on his personal side projects and contribute to the open sources, with the ultimate goal of starting to contribute to Bitcoin Core itself.
STU had this statement about Bitcoiners's priorities that enter the future:
“Our first focus on making self -custody should be better. It is really absorbing at the present time, and I think more bitcoin columns in general need to admit it. The backup 12 words seem simple, but it is not so easy, and no one does that.”
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