just going into the rabbit hole yourself and doing more of a deep dive?” She responds that because of the nature of her work, she keeps a detailed breakdown of her time – “about 30% of my time on my main project… I try to do about 50% of my time on just peer review, and or opening small PR to fix bugs… about 10% of my time on things like advocacy and education,… and 10% just pure learning.” To follow this up Wilson asks, “what’s the percentage of time you spend, let’s say reviewing other people’s work, having conversations with other people about what you guys are working on vs. Zhao answers “…I work on Bitcoin core, which is one implementation of a Bitcoin client,… Day to day I’d say save a few community, cultural, changes it’s kind of just like working on any software project, except we don’t have a boss, we just kind of review each others PR’s cause we care about them and they are important to Bitcoin, we fix bugs because if they stay in the client then the network might have some troubles, not because our boss told us to.” She continues, “I grew up in Silicon Valley so I think that gave me perspective on how endless it is to chase this idea of ‘innovation’ and profit, and that always struck pretty empty to me so Bitcoin was very different and I had an immediate draw to it.” Olszewicz then asks, “what is your day to day like? Zoom calls and meetings or do you work independently as a decentralized developer?” Wilson begins by asking “what got you into Bitcoin in the first place?” To which Zhao responds, “… There are a lot of ideologies in there from the beginning that I found very appealing, and on top of that there are a lot of very interesting engineering technical challenges to work on, and as a computer science student obviously I was drawn to that…” Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by Gloria Zhao, a Bitcoin core dev to break down the behind the scenes action of a developer. In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J.
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