Alekos Filini and Daniela Brozzoni visit the podcast to discuss the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK). Hang out with them on the BDK Discord. We cover: How BDK started (00:48) Why is it named BDK and not the Magical Bitcoin Library? (2:10) The first users of BDK (3:30) Rust HWI (4:20) Built around descriptors (7:15) The ideal use case of BDK (7:30) Pain points (9:05) Why do devs keep building wallets from scratch? (10:05) Greenwallet (13:03) If you have a working wallet, should you switch to BDK? (16:25) HWI complaints (see Python) (17:41) BDK 1.0 release features (22:31) Sync Planning module