Simplicity, Bitcoin's Last soft Fork? with Christian Lewe - Blockstream Talk #26
Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're speaking with Christian Lewe from the Blockstream Research team about Simplicity, a blockchain programming language so simple it actually fits on a t shirt. Christian runs us through an introduction to Simplicity, and we also discussed why Dr. Adam Back calls Simplicity, the last soft fork of Bitcoin. It's really interesting to see how low-time preference the Blockstream Research team is and how they're really playing the long game in terms of Bitcoin development. Enjoy the show and don’t forget to subscribe and share this conversation with Bitcoiners you know.
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Show Notes
🏃♂️ Try out Simplicity Playground by Burak
🧑🏫 Simplicity BuildOnL2 general thread
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🔊 Join the SImplicity discussion on GitHub
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3:26 Blockstream Research mission & structure
04:53 So simple it fits on a T-Shirt
09:30 Bitcoin’s last soft fork?
15:56 SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY
23:59Applications of Simplicity
2:40 Risks & rewards of merging Simplicity to Bitcoin L1
29:25 Fee market implications of merging Simplicity
33:36 The process of implementing SImplicity on Bitcoin
39:25 Criticisms of Simplicity
44:51 Relationship between Miniscript & Simplicity
49:47 Simplicity resources
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