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On this episode of “Bitcoin, Defined” (previously often called “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado”), hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost mentioned the Chivo software, the Bitcoin pockets and fee terminal offered by the federal government of El Salvador.
This episode is a bit of bit totally different from different episodes of “Bitcoin, Defined,” as a result of the Chivo app is closed-source software program. As an alternative of analyzing the supply code and design of the appliance, van Wirdum and Provoost needed to depend on van Wirdum’s private expertise with the pockets and fee terminal or what he remembers of that non-public expertise.
“It is good when it’s open supply and clear,” stated Provoost. “The Chivo system will not be actually that.”
The episode opens with some normal details about the Chivo pockets, resembling why it was developed and who developed it (insofar as something is understood about that). Van Wirdum and Provoost went on to debate van Wirdum’s experiences with the pockets and speculated what meaning for the design. After that, they mentioned the design of the fee terminal that’s included within the software, and likewise briefly touched on the Chivo ATMs which have been deployed throughout the nation.
“You possibly can ship [bitcoin] to a different Chivo Pockets, however to not an exterior pockets, so any service provider utilizing Chivo would be capable to settle for it, however any service provider not utilizing Chivo wouldn’t be capable to settle for it,” Provoost stated. “Which is the precise reverse of the purpose of being interoperable.”
Lastly, van Wirdum and Provoost mentioned the distinction in philosophy between the design of the Chivo software and Bitcoin’s free and open-source software program tradition.
