Bitcoin Cryptography and Scripting with Andrew Poelstra SLP507

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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