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BR029 - SegWit, Taproot, Schnoor, Inscriptions & Witness Discount ft. Andrew Poelstra & Adam Gibson
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BR029 - SegWit, Taproot, Schnoor, Inscriptions & Witness Discount ft. Andrew Poelstra & Adam Gibson

31 Mar • 2hr 10m
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Show Notes

I'm joined by guests Andrew Poelstra and Adam Gibson to discuss SegWit and related issues including taproot, schnoor, inscriptions and the witness discount.
Discussion Topics:

00:02:14 Introductions to guests
00:05:06 Introductions to episode
00:06:12 bech32
00:15:46 The malleability problem
00:22:23 Mental model for understanding malleability
00:26:16 Primer on SegWit
00:36:23 Why does witness data have a discount?
00:42:40 What is sighash?
00:46:55 How is the weight calculated?
00:53:19 Inputs and outputs
00:58:41 Importance of the UTXO set
01:02:45 Block size considerations
01:04:13 Calculating the witness data discount
01:09:00 Introduction to Taproot and Schnoor
01:11:08 Schnoor signatures
01:21:01 Taproot
01:36:59 Taproot use cases
01:40:31 Timelocks, covenants and OP_VAULT
01:44:44 Taproot + lightning
01:47:17 Ordinals and inscriptions
02:06:40 References
02:09:11 Final thoughts

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-29/
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