Bitcoin Cryptography and Scripting with Andrew Poelstra SLP507
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Andrew Poelstra (Director of Research, Blockstream) has been around Bitcoin research and development for a long time, and has a lot of insight to share on Bitcoin research in this episode. For part 2 of my discussion with Andrew we focus more on bitcoin and cryptography research that the team are working on, and what it means for the future of Bitcoin:

• Cryptography

• Bulletproofs++ 

• MuSig2

• FROST

• Bitcoin Scripting

• Miniscript

• Simplicity

• CTV and APO

• Covenants: are they risky for Bitcoin? 

• Transaction Introspection on Liquid

Links:

• Blockstream Research on X)

• Blockstream Research site)

Other relevant episodes:

• SLP476 What is FROST? Is it the future of Bitcoin Multi Sig? with Nick Farrow)

• SLP222 Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing What’s MuSig2? What Does it Mean for Bitcoin Multisig?)

• SLP452 Bitcoin Miniscript and what it enables – with Antoine Poinsot & Salvatore Ingala)

• SLP339 Jeremy Rubin – What is Check Template Verify?)

• SLP505 MuSig2 in Practice, APO, CTV & Bitcoin Soft Forks with Brandon Black)

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• Pacific Bitcoin Festival) )(code) LIVERA))

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• Mempool.space)

• Base58 )

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