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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew Poelstra

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more. 


Checkout Andrew's work: https://github.com/apoelstra

Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent


Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. 

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hey there, freaks. It's your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this week's sponsor

0:04.7

before our incredible conversation with Andrew Polstra from Blockstream. We talked about really

0:10.2

cool stuff. A lot of it went over my head because I'm an idiot, but I think you guys are going

0:14.6

to enjoy it. This week's episode of Tales from the Crypt is brought to you by the Cash App.

0:19.1

You freaks already know about it, but we also

0:20.9

got some goddamn good news this week. It looks like they're finally rolling out deposits on the app.

0:27.2

So if you have Bitcoin and you want to deposit on the cash app, it looks like they're rolling

0:31.0

out that functionality. I currently have the ability to do that. You've got to go through a little

0:36.7

I'm going to share a little bit of information with them,

0:39.1

and then they enable deposits.

0:40.3

So it looks like they're about to close the loop on the cash app.

0:43.5

And you guys know the cash app's been the number one finance app in the app stores for the last

0:47.6

two years with 15 million plus users.

0:51.4

They've also got the boost program, which allows you to go to merchants and save and get money back.

0:58.0

You get a boost card.

0:58.8

You get to personalize it with your signature with a little Bitcoin symbol, with the lightning bolt, whatever floats your fancy, whatever tickles your fancy.

1:06.8

That's the correct term there.

1:08.4

So yeah, go to your local app store today.

1:10.9

Download the cash app.

1:12.0

Again, they're enabling Bitcoin deposits on the app.

1:15.4

They're rolling that out right now as we speak.

1:18.6

As it seems that things are, again,

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