2020 Bitcoin Tech Review with Shinobi - WBD291
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
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 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 Loop and CoinSwap.
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| 0:00.0 | This year is the first year where I feel like the question of is all this going to work out in some way in the long term is settling itself. |
| 0:11.0 | Like everything is just rocketing forward. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello there from Bedford. How are you all? Welcome to the What Bitcoin did |
| 0:19.0 | podcast which is brought you by the mighty Cracken, the best place to buy, sell and trade Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter McCormack and today I've got an interview |
| 0:26.4 | with my buddy Shunobe, sometimes my foe and we're going to be reviewing Bitcoin Tech in |
| 0:31.5 | 2020 but before that I do have a message from my |
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