The Great Script Restoration and Building Bitcoin Layer-2s with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #41
Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today we're speaking with senior Lightning Network developer Rusty Russell, not only about all things Lightning, including Greenlight and Xpay, but also about the great script restoration, a proposal to make Bitcoin great again by re-enabling opcodes that Satoshi himself chopped early in Bitcoin's history. If you find the conversation useful, don't forget to like, subscribe and share.
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Show Notes
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01:51 The Great Script Restoration
09:58 GSR activation
18:13 Covenants and layer-2s
22:21 Dual Funding
23:59 Bolt12 and Lightning Network spec
26:26 Greenlight: non-custodial Lightning-as-a-service
29:56 X-Pay plugin for Core Lightning
36:06 Core Lightning ecosystem growth
45:47 Bitcoin in 2025
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