Unconfirmed: How Taproot Could Improve Bitcoin -- If It Gets Adopted - Ep.243

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Rubin, a Bitcoin Core contributor and founder of Judica, a Bitcoin R&D Lab, joins Unchained from the Miami Bitcoin Conference (2021) to discuss all things Taproot. Show highlights: a general update on the Miami Bitcoin Conference what Taproot will do for the Bitcoin network how Taproot will make Bitcoin transactions more private what effect Taproot might have on on-chain analytics companies what parts of Bitcoin transactions will be public if/when Taproot goes live what new wallet features Taproot will unlock for Bitcoin how Bitcoin vaults might work a user-friendly definition of MASTs (Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree) how Taproot signaling works when/if Taproot will lock-in why network updates strain the relationship between miners and users Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unchainedcardearnfeb2021 Tezos: https://tezos.com/discover?utm_source=laura-shin&utm_medium=podcast-sponsorship-unconfirmed&utm_campaign=tezos-campaign&utm_content=hero NEAR: https://near.org Episode Links: Jeremy Rubin Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin Judica: https://judica.org/ Personal website: https://rubin.io/ Taproot Signaling status of Taproot: https://taproot.watch/ Bitcoin Magazine on Taproot: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin Why Taproot matters: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-privacy-and-scaling-tech-upgrade-taproot-just-took-a-big-step-forward Marathon lifts block mining censorship: https://www.coindesk.com/marathon-wont-censor-bitcoin-transactions-says-mining-ceo MASTs: https://bitcointechtalk.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-merklized-abstract-syntax-tree-mast-33fdf2da5e2f Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Unconfirmed. The show that reveals how the marquee names in
0:08.2	crypto are reacting to the week's top headlines gets the inside skip on what they see in the
0:12.4	horizon. I'm your host Laura Shin, a journalist with over two decades of experience. I started
0:17.8	covering crypto six years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream
0:22.1	media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time. This is the June 4th 2021 episode of Unconfirmed.
0:28.7	Next week is the five-year anniversary of Unchained. If you want to send in a question or comment
0:33.6	for next week's show, which will be a mini AMA, the deadline to get your submissions in is
0:38.1	Thursday, June 10th at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific. Send it via email to helloatunchainedpodcast.com
0:45.6	and write anniversary in the subject's line. And also, let me know how to pronounce your name.
0:50.3	Thanks for listening to Unchained all these years. I never imagined it would change my life
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1:36.4	Today's guest is Jeremy Rubin, a Bitcoin core contributor and the founder of judica.org
1:41.2	of Bitcoin Research and Development Organization. Welcome Jeremy.
1:45.5	Hey, yeah, thanks so much for having me on the show.
1:48.4	You're in Miami for BTC Miami, the first crypto conference since the pandemic started.
1:54.7	How is it? What's the atmosphere like?
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