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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