2020 Bitcoin Tech Review with Shinobi

 
 
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“This year, is the first year where I feel like the question of ‘is all this going to work out in the long term?’ is settling itself, everything is just rocketing forward.”
— Shinobi

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Location: Remotely
Date: Monday 21st December
Company: Block Digest
Role: Host

2020 has been a record-breaking year for Bitcoin where we have seen the price reach a new all-time high of over $24,000. Companies like MicroStrategy and Square have paved the way for institutional investors, and mainstream media covers Bitcoin more than ever. 

While interest in Bitcoin is continuing to grow, behind the scenes, Bitcoin developers are quietly continuing to push the technology forwards. With improvements like Schnorr signatures and CoinSwap on the horizon and advancements with discrete log contracts and Lightning Lab’s Pool & Loop, the technical side of Bitcoin is also thriving. 

In this interview, I am joined by Shinobi host of Block Digest. We review the technical side of Bitcoin in 2020, including MuSig, Schnorr & Taproot, discrete log contract, Lightning Labs Pool & Loop and CoinSwap.

TIMESTAMPS

00:04:24: Introductions
00:05:19: Shinobi's 2020
00:12:33: MuSig-DN and MuSig2
00:19:11: The original MuSig
00:25:02: Musig-DN
00:27:24: Schnorr
00:31:25: MuSig2
00:37:07: Discreet Log Contracts and oracles
00:49:43: Lightning's use case
00:53:49: Lightning's development in 2020
00:55:18: Lightning Pool
01:03:21: CoinSwap
01:13:54: Taproot and SegWit
01:17:48: BIP-0085
01:24:41: Tech to look forward to in 2021
01:25:27: Monthly Shinobi tech show
01:26:23: Final comments

 

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