BR029 - SegWit, Taproot, Schnoor, Inscriptions & Witness Discount ft. Andrew Poelstra & Adam Gibson

I’m joined by guests Andrew Poelstra and Adam Gibson to discuss SegWit and related issues including taproot, schnoor, inscriptions and the witness discount.

Discussion Topics:

• 00:02:14 Introductions to guests

• 00:05:06 Introductions to episode

• 00:06:12 bech32

• 00:15:46 The malleability problem

• 00:22:23 Mental model for understanding malleability

• 00:26:16 Primer on SegWit

• 00:36:23 Why does witness data have a discount?

• 00:42:40 What is sighash?

• 00:46:55 How is the weight calculated?

• 00:53:19 Inputs and outputs

• 00:58:41 Importance of the UTXO set

• 01:02:45 Block size considerations

• 01:04:13 Calculating the witness data discount

• 01:09:00 Introduction to Taproot and Schnoor

• 01:11:08 Schnoor signatures

• 01:21:01 Taproot

• 01:36:59 Taproot use cases

• 01:40:31 Timelocks, covenants and OP_VAULT

• 01:44:44 Taproot + lightning

• 01:47:17 Ordinals and inscriptions

• 02:06:40 References

• 02:09:11 Final thoughts

Notes & Resources

• The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules by Jonathan Bier

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