#431: Jag Sidhu, Core Developer at Syscoin, on Scaling Bitcoin's Utility and Creating AI-Ready Infrastructure for Crypto

Jagdeep (Jag) Sidhu is the core developer at Syscoin and part of the management team at SYS Labs, Building Bitcoin’s only modular network. Jag has a strong background in software engineering and is a pioneer in the crypto industry. As a core developer, Jagdeep has marshalled the world’s fifth-oldest surviving cryptocurrency into its second decade, creating tools, technologies, and services that enhance the functionality and usability of the Syscoin platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Trump’s tariffs tantrums and it’s market implications
- Will crypto decouple from trad-fi?
- Building on Bitcoin
- The founding story and history of Syscoin
- AI-Ready infrastructure for crypto
- Human observation in the development of AGI
- Supporting AI-driven decentralized applications
- Scaling Bitcoin’s utility
- Launching mainnet for zkSYS
- Merge-Mining with Bitcoin
- Proof-of-Data Availability (PoDA)

Syscoin
Website: syscoin.org
X: @syscoin
Telegram: t.me/Syscoin_Official

Jag Sidhu
X: @realSidhuJag
LinkedIn: Jagdeep Sidhu

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