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Mike Schmidt

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Mike Schmidt

@bitschmidty

Funding Bitcoin node security, testing, and maintenance @bitcoinbrink Blocking and tackling at @bitcoinoptech

Joined September 2018

Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 26, 2025
My fellow Bitcoiners, we are absolutely winning. Dont believe the catastrophizing. Spam isn’t a mortal threat to Bitcoin. @LukeDashjr isn’t going to hard fork Bitcoin. Bitcoin development is winning. There are nearly 100,000 Bitcoin nodes on the network (source: Luke’s
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 22, 2025
Earlier today I opened a PR to Bitcoin Core to remove the deprecation for the `datacarrier` and `datacarriersize` options. I realize this is a sensitive topic for Bitcoin Core users, so I am also posting here for both visibility and as a place for feedback that might not
docs: Undeprecate datacarrier and datacarriersize configuration options by bitschmidty · Pull...
From github.com
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Jan 4, 2024
Some disturbing and irrefutable evidence of a back door being put into Bitcoin Core has come to light in recent days. While I usually abstain from engaging in such discussions, the egregiousness and malice in this instance requires me to speak up…
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 18, 2025
If I wanted to destroy Bitcoin, I would just tell everyone the software is perfect and needs no work done on it.
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 14, 2025
Replying to @Dennis_Porter_ @adam3us and 5 others
Hey Dennis, as the co-organizer of most of the Bitcoin Core developer meetings in the last years, I can say there is no industry lobbying at these events. They are for the Bitcoin Core project contributors, not for industry. You can see all of the events, each events' sponsors,
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Nov 26, 2024
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Oct 31, 2025
Last week many Bitcoin Core developers met up in Frankfurt, Germany as part of their regular twice-yearly in person meetings. Attendees volunteered to take notes on the unconference-style sessions and I have a pull request to add the notes to the BTC transcripts website: -
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 14, 2025
Dear Bitcoin community, Some notes on Brink's independence from our donors Some notes about the in person Bitcoin Core developer meetings
Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Sep 14, 2025
Replying to @Dennis_Porter_ @adam3us and 5 others
Hey Dennis, as the co-organizer of most of the Bitcoin Core developer meetings in the last years, I can say there is no industry lobbying at these events. They are for the Bitcoin Core project contributors, not for industry. You can see all of the events, each events' sponsors,
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Oct 7, 2025
Pieter Wuille recently responded to questions and criticisms around his perspectives about spam and OP_RETURN... First, Pieter commented about demand for blockchain storage being infinite
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Feb 6, 2025
Brink renews our financial support for all of our 8 Bitcoin Core engineers through 2025! Thank you to @fanquake @glozow @hhebasto @theStack @dergoegge @stphnvlstk @fjahr and @marcofleon for your amazing work on Bitcoin and we are proud to support you. 🙏
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
May 2, 2025
Gmax on the OP_RETURN discussion (quoting/paraphrasing portions below): When relay policy is more restrictive than what is actually being mined there are at least two serious negative effects: - the latency of block propagation is greatly harmed - encourages the establishment
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Jul 12, 2024
Scoreboard @achow101
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Dec 18, 2024
On "leaders" in Bitcoin Core Im not interested in wading into semantics and definition hell here, but Ill point out that Bitcoin Core has MANY (what Ill call) project champions. @fanquake has a vision and strong opinions about the build system @MarcoFalke and the CI
Chris Guida | ⚡🪢 BIP110
@cguida6
Dec 18, 2024
Again, "rough consensus and running code" is not mutally exclusive with "good leadership". What I'm picturing is "good leaders coming to rough consensus and running code". The fact that you think "rough consensus and running code" works just as well with bad leaders as good
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Mike Schmidt
@bitschmidty
Oct 10, 2025
Bitcoin Core v30: a deeper look What is in Bitcoin Core v30? One way to answer this is to review the release notes and discuss features. A few contributors have already done this already and I'll point to their summaries. But another angle is to look at all of the PRs and
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