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The Tyranny of Permissionlessness in Bitcoin | Amiti Uttarwar

By Danny Knowles

Aired Jan 27, 2026 · 1h 11m · Last boosted Jan 28, 2026

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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. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ANCHORWATCH BLOCKWARE LEDN BITKEY SWAN FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/\_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Amiti Uttarwar: https://x...

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  • 500 via Fountain
    Amiti, 10x your productivity reminded me of the Pomadoro Technique I teach my high school students. Basically you remove all distractions and work for a set period of time (45 minutes usually) on a specific task then you have to take a 5 minute break. If you do 3 rounds of this you then have to take a longer 30 minute break and eat.
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