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

Confused about what MuSig2 is? As Bitcoin’s Schnorr Taproot soft fork has now been merged into Bitcoin Core (but not yet activated), it’s worthwhile understanding what some of the new multisignature schemes are for using Taproot. Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing, cryptographers working at Blockstream join me on the show to talk about their latest, MuSig2. Jonas Nick‘s Links: Twitter: @n1ckler Tim Ruffing‘s Links: Twitter: @real_or_random Links: MuSig2 paper: Simple Two-Round Schnorr Multi-Signatures MuSig-DN Prior episodes: SLP137 AJ Towns – Schnorr Taproot Tapscript BIPs SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) Knox Custody Bitcoin Black Friday CypherSafe Stephan Livera links: Show notes and website Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast Patreon @stephanlivera