James O’Beirne (Bitcoin Core developer) rejoins me on the show to chat about OP_Vault. We discuss:
- The history of the Vault idea
- Precomputed vaults vs General covenants
- What does a good vault look like?
- How OP_Vault works
- Who it’s for
- What next with OP_Vault
Links:
- Paper: Vaults and Covenants
- Twitter: @jamesob
- Mailing list discussion: [bitcoin-dev] OP_VAULT: a new vault proposal
- Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/jamesob/status/1612482957406801922
Prior episodes:
- SLP339 Jeremy Rubin – What is Check Template Verify?
- SLP404 Gloria Zhao – What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?
- SLP83 Conner Fromknecht – Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers in depth
- SLP66 James O’Beirne – The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin
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- Swan Bitcoin
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