Blockstream Talk

The Great Script Restoration and Building Bitcoin Layer-2s with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #41

Episode Summary

Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today we're speaking with senior Lightning Network developer Rusty Russell, not only about all things Lightning, including Greenlight and Xpay, but also about the great script restoration, a proposal to make Bitcoin great again by re-enabling opcodes that Satoshi himself chopped early in Bitcoin's history. If you find the conversation useful, don't forget to like, subscribe and share.

Episode Notes

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01:51 The Great Script Restoration

09:58 GSR activation

18:13 Covenants and layer-2s

22:21 Dual Funding

23:59 Bolt12 and Lightning Network spec

26:26 Greenlight: non-custodial Lightning-as-a-service

29:56 X-Pay plugin for Core Lightning

36:06 Core Lightning ecosystem growth

45:47 Bitcoin in 2025