Whereas attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo in Boston over the weekend I used to be fortunate sufficient to get an opportunity to take a seat down and speak with Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer Gloria Zhao.
Gloria started contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2020 shortly earlier than she graduated from UC Berkeley on the finish of the yr. Giving up an opportunity to work full time at Google after a university internship, she determined to leap into contributing to Bitcoin Core full time due to funding from Brink with contributions from the Human Rights Basis and Spiral.
In 2022 she grew to become a Bitcoin Core maintainer, one of many builders with commit permissions permitting them to finalize including new code within the Bitcoin Core repository. She took on that function the identical day that Pieter Wiulle stepped down.
Along with her function as a contributor and maintainer, Gloria helps mentor newer Bitcoin Core contributors in addition to organizes the Bitcoin Core PR Evaluate Membership with Stéphan Vuylsteke to do weekly critiques of open pull requests proposing new code to Bitcoin Core. The membership might be discovered right here for many who wish to take part (nudge, nudge).
She talked with me concerning the focus of her work on Bitcoin Core, the mempool. We mentioned why a decentralized and open mempool is necessary for Bitcoin’s censorship resistance, a few of her work on package deal relay (sending transactions throughout the community as teams to allow higher price optimization and reliability), how the mempool interacts with layer two techniques, and what’s being deliberate for future enhancements to make sure the mempool stays wholesome and purposeful.
You may watch the interview right here: