SLP404 Gloria Zhao - What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?

Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin core contributor and maintainer, rejoins me on the show to chat about what bitcoin core maintainers do. We discuss: What do Bitcoin Core maintainers do? How does Bitcoin Core development work? How much ‘power’ do maintainers have? Mempools - what are they and why do we need them? Interaction with L2 protocols Mempool package relay RBF Links: Twitter: @glozow Package Relay Proposal Site mentioned: Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Github: glozow Brink: @bitcoinbrink Bitcoin Core PR Reviews: @BitcoinCorePRs SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club  SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Mempool.space Braiins.com Voltage Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)