Description

Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of the PSBT standard rejoins me on the show to talk about the creation of a series of BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) for Output Script Descriptors. We break down and explore the key concepts to make it accessible for bitcoiners.

• Seeds
• BIP39 vs Electrum seeds vs aezeed
• Derivation paths
• How Output Script Descriptors improve things
• New functionality
• Backups and recovery
• Lightning
• Miniscript
• Advanced scripting

Links:

• Twitter: @achow101
• Output Script Descriptors BIP: [New BIPs] Output Script Descriptors - GitHub
• Taproot PSBT BIP: [New BIP] Taproot Fields for PSBT - GitHub
• Mailing list post

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Hodl Hodl Lend
• Compass Mining
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website
• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera