In this bonus episode of Blockstream Talk, Jesse Knutson sits down with Andrew Poelstra to talk Bitcoin, privacy, scaling solutions, and sidechains.
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1:52 What is Blockstream researching?
4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?
15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?
21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?
28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?
32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?
34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?
39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?
48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?
54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?
59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?
1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?
1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption?