The Battle for Bitcoin Core (w/ Eric Voskuil) | PubKey Live

Thomas Pacchia (https://x.com/tpacchia)⁠ sits down with software architect, Navy pilot, and author ⁠Eric Voskuil⁠ (https://x.com/evoskuil) for a wide-ranging fireside chat about:

- The true story behind Libbitcoin
- Why Bitcoin Core’s architecture can’t scale and may already be eroding full validation
- A first-person account of Amir Taaki’s wild journey from Bitcoin dev to Kurdish militia fighter
- Why Voskuil sees “assume valid” as the beginning of the end for permissionless money
- Why the performance gap between Bitcoin Core and Libbitcoin matters
- How funding pressures, philosophical drift, and tech debt are shaping the future of Bitcoin infrastructure

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