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 Sponsors: Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Mempool.space Base58  Stephan Livera links: Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast