What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did
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The Tyranny of Permissionlessness in Bitcoin | Amiti Uttarwar
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Jan 27, 2026 at 12:11 pm.
Switching into a 10x mindset
Introducing Amiti Uttarwar
Amiti’s journey into Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin as freedom tech for everyone
Quantum computing as a threat to Bitcoin
Leaving Core to start a nonprofit
Challenges of open source development
The grant ecosystem
What is Way?
The topic of diversity in Bitcoin
Neuroscience and the source code of a good life
10x is easier than 2x
Flow state and high performance
The need for a multi-dimensional support system
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Amiti Uttarwar is a Bitcoin protocol developer and founder of Waye. In this episode we discuss her path from Bitcoin Core to building support structures for long term open source contributors, the limits of permissionless work, funding and sustainability tradeoffs in Bitcoin development, and why social and human layers now matter as much as technical ones.

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