Andrew Poelstra (Director of Research, Blockstream) has been around Bitcoin research and development for a long time, and has a lot of insight to share on Bitcoin research in this episode. For part 2 of my discussion with Andrew we focus more on bitcoin and cryptography research that the team are working on, and what it means for the future of Bitcoin:

• Cryptography
• Bulletproofs++ 
• MuSig2
• FROST
• Bitcoin Scripting
• Miniscript
• Simplicity
• CTV and APO
• Covenants: are they risky for Bitcoin? 
• Transaction Introspection on Liquid

Links:

• Blockstream Research on X
• Blockstream Research site

Other relevant episodes:

• SLP476 What is FROST? Is it the future of Bitcoin Multi Sig? with Nick Farrow
• SLP222 Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing What’s MuSig2? What Does it Mean for Bitcoin Multisig?
• SLP452 Bitcoin Miniscript and what it enables – with Antoine Poinsot & Salvatore Ingala
• SLP339 Jeremy Rubin – What is Check Template Verify?
• SLP505 MuSig2 in Practice, APO, CTV & Bitcoin Soft Forks with Brandon Black

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• Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA)
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