Podcasts/What Bitcoin Did/The Tyranny of Permissionlessness in Bitcoin | Amiti Uttarwar
What Bitcoin Did

The Tyranny of Permissionlessness in Bitcoin | Amiti Uttarwar

January 27, 2026·1h 11m·w/ Amiti Uttarwar

Show Notes

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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