4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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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. |
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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