She goes on to say, “I very much value time like this where you are able to send a message … I can tell people, ‘Hey, there’s people working on Bitcoin. Hey, it’s gonna break if nobody works on it,’ so it’s really important to pay the people who do, and get more people to want to be Bitcoin Core developers, because that is very important for Bitcoin’s health, developmentally.”
Discussing personal securities, Zhao details, “We live our lives online and there is a lot at stake and a lot to lose. I think everyone should learn how to code a little bit, or equip themselves with tools to protect themselves on the internet.”
Continuing on the discussion of security in regards to Bitcoin, Zhao explains, “We care about operating in this system because there are legitimately people who need money in these systems, and other altcoins where they are not operating under that threat model, and maybe they are doing something or solving an interesting technical challenge that is useful in other aspects, but they don’t have — what I think is — Bitcoin’s core value proposition which is its security model.”
Zhao finishes the episode, “It is going to be built brick by brick, where everything is stable underneath, so we need more people.”