Alekos Filini and Daniela Brozzoni visit the podcast to discuss the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK). Hang out with them on the BDK Discord.
We cover:
How BDK started (00:48)
Why is it named BDK and not the Magical Bitcoin Library? (2:10)
The first users of BDK (3:30)
Rust HWI (4:20)
Built around descriptors (7:15)
The ideal use case of BDK (7:30)
Pain points (9:05)
Why do devs keep building wallets from scratch? (10:05)
Greenwallet (13:03)
If you have a working wallet, should you switch to BDK? (16:25)
HWI complaints (see Python) (17:41)
BDK 1.0 release features (22:31)
