58 min

Great Script Restoration with Rusty Russell SLP577 Stephan Livera Podcast

    • Technology

Rusty Russell rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic that existed amongst other proposals. Listen in to learn more about the different paradigm that Rusty introduces here, so that developers can build more functionality and efficiency in, hopefully so that more people can use Bitcoin in self-custody. 


Bitcoin Script background


GSR overview


GSR benefits 


What is varops 


Contrast with APO or LNHANCE?


Will it enable shitcoins and spam?



Relevant previous episodes:


SLP565 Great Consensus Clean up, MEVil and LN isn’t dead – Steve Lee and Matt Corallo


SLP573 A Shift in Bitcoin Developer Thought? with Brandon Black (aka reardencode)



Links:


Rusty’s BTC plus plus talk on GSR


https://x.com/rusty_twit 



Sponsors:


Swan.com (code LIVERA)


CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)


Mempool.space



Stephan Livera links:


Follow me on X: @stephanlivera


Subscribe to the podcast


Subscribe to Substack

Rusty Russell rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic that existed amongst other proposals. Listen in to learn more about the different paradigm that Rusty introduces here, so that developers can build more functionality and efficiency in, hopefully so that more people can use Bitcoin in self-custody. 


Bitcoin Script background


GSR overview


GSR benefits 


What is varops 


Contrast with APO or LNHANCE?


Will it enable shitcoins and spam?



Relevant previous episodes:


SLP565 Great Consensus Clean up, MEVil and LN isn’t dead – Steve Lee and Matt Corallo


SLP573 A Shift in Bitcoin Developer Thought? with Brandon Black (aka reardencode)



Links:


Rusty’s BTC plus plus talk on GSR


https://x.com/rusty_twit 



Sponsors:


Swan.com (code LIVERA)


CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)


Mempool.space



Stephan Livera links:


Follow me on X: @stephanlivera


Subscribe to the podcast


Subscribe to Substack

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