Bitcoin Privacy, Scaling Solutions, and Sidechains with Andrew Poelstra

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1:52 What is Blockstream researching?

4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?

15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?

21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?

28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?

32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?

34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?

39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?

48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?

54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?

59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?

1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?

1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption?

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