#228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss:
- The history of SegWit2x
- How SegWit actually got activated
- BIP 148
- BIP 91
- Preventing a split
- Fork futures
- Lessons learned
- UASF as a nuclear option
- Taproot activation
- BIP 8 (True/False)
- Why precedents matter
- LDK update
- much more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, freaks? It's your boy, Marty, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crip. |
| 0:06.0 | Sat down with our good friend Matt Corallo. |
| 0:08.4 | Most tenured guest on this podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I think that's safe to say at this point. |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, we had a really good conversation, a good history lesson, a good, a warning from Matt. |
| 0:20.2 | Not a warning, but hey, let's pay attention to this. |
| 0:23.3 | Let's be careful with the precedence we set with how we upgrade Bitcoin and change consensus |
| 0:28.5 | rules. So we get into the history of BIP 148, BIP 91, and talk a little bit about how the conversation around activating Tapproot is |
| 0:39.9 | going. |
| 0:40.3 | Currently, we also talk about the lightning development kit that Matt is working on at |
| 0:46.1 | Square Crypto. |
| 0:48.1 | Always enjoy talking to Matt. |
| 0:49.5 | I always learned. |
| 0:51.6 | Somebody who thinks deeply about Bitcoin has a very adversarial mindset. |
| 0:55.9 | Somebody we're lucky to have working on the protocol. |
| 0:59.6 | This episode is brought to you by our good friends at the motherfucking cash-up. |
| 1:07.3 | Cash app's helping you stack sats, send sats, receive sats, sell sats, if you so, please. Resane, sats, sats,, receive sets, sell sats, if you so, please. |
| 1:11.6 | We're saying sats, sets, sets, sets, sets, sets, sets, sets. Sats, sets, sets. |
| 1:16.4 | Sats are the standard, okay, freaks? |
| 1:20.3 | There's a hundred million sats in one Bitcoin. You don't have to buy a whole Bitcoin and maybe seem expensive. |
| 1:25.4 | Oh my God, bitcoin's that looking at clark's dashboard |
| 1:28.2 | forty five thousand two hundred fifty dollars it's way too expensive i can't afford a whole bitcoin |
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