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Evan Lin is a New Zealand software engineer currently working on the Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK).
We talk about Evan’s journey to get funded by Spiral to work full-time on open-source Bitcoin projects, his experience working and living in Taiwan, and how we can encourage emerging developers to put their time and effort into Bitcoin.
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