Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew Poelstra

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 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

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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.
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0:47.6	two years with 15 million plus users.
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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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