Episode notes
The second day of TABConf 8, live from Atlanta. Ekrem Bal talks Citrea privacy, Kevin Loaec explains Liana wallet, Spaces Protocol introduces BTC handles, Bitcoin credit unions enter the scene, Peter Todd unboxes his Zcash ceremony laptop 10 years later.
Time stamps:
0:00 Stream warm-up
2:29 Ekrem Bal: Citrea pivots to privacy with Crest
7:22 Privacy and scalability on Citrea
11:30 Privacy as protection from physical attacks
16:00 Lessons from almost a year on mainnet
19:00 User feedback and the Clementine web app
20:13 Alpen, garbled circuits and Clementine v2
21:33 Next use cases: lending, vaults and agent spending limits
22:51 Making Citrea post-quantum
26:21 Great Script Restoration and trust assumptions
29:29 OP_CAT vs CTV vs template hash
31:26 How Crest differs from Tornado Cash
33:12 Railgun and proof of innocence
33:53 Why build on Bitcoin instead of Ethereum
36:23 Favorite fork: Taproot and Zcash envy
38:19 The eCash replay trick
41:24 Skiing and mountaineering
42:51 110 BTC on Citrea
43:34 Kevin Loaec joins
44:31 First and last TABConf and the unconference format
46:21 A bad year: Coldcard, Liquid and Liana
48:00 Stu joins
48:41 Vaults vs Liana’s timelocks
51:59 Most interesting guest and 10 hour episodes
54:02 Forks magazine
55:32 Script emulation on Bark
56:08 Liana videos and Revault
57:32 Favorite covenant and enforced amounts
59:40 Wrench attacks and Liana’s exposure
1:01:07 Ledger leaks and buying hardware online
1:03:41 Coldcard’s RNG bug, license and bounties
1:06:07 Andrew joins: Spaces Protocol
1:10:30 Buffer joins
1:10:55 3,700 spaces and @bitcoin handles
1:11:18 The TABConf name giveaway and delegation
1:14:39 Nacho and payment handles
1:15:39 Burning @tabconf forever
1:17:45 32 bytes on chain and cert relays
1:19:15 Client-side validation and censorship resistance
1:20:18 One click install on StartOS
1:21:14 How Spaces makes money
1:22:17 What stops an alt Spaces?
1:24:01 Namecoin, squatters and 10 auctions a day
1:27:25 Utility: Nacho and social proofs
1:29:37 Don’t reuse your name address: silent payments
1:32:19 Spaces and Bitcoin’s scalability
1:33:39 Do names expire?
1:35:43 One character names
1:37:10 Insight gateways, Nostr and Blossom
1:40:43 The Fabric resolver
1:41:23 Handle pricing
1:44:02 Where to learn more about Spaces
1:47:00 Spaces and the forks
1:53:44 Last call for @tabconf handles
1:55:42 Goodbye Andrew and Buffer
1:57:34 Hallway break
2:00:00 Kevin Loaec returns: Paris, Sparrow and Miniscript
2:05:26 Funding open source without begging users
2:12:33 A horrible year: hacks and forks
2:13:47 Bitcoin follows the crowd
2:28:55 New guest and matching watches
2:29:57 What makes you bullish about Bitcoin?
2:31:05 Closing hallway chatter
2:43:10 Part 2: Back online: The Bitcoin Pivot and the three C’s
2:47:39 How credit unions will custody bitcoin
2:49:28 An advisory firm with vendor-agnostic partners
2:51:47 Why TABConf is welcoming
2:52:26 Feedback and the wave of credit union mergers
2:56:32 Credit unions vs banks: the not-for-profit mission
2:58:32 Lightning and paying with Bitcoin
2:59:10 Credit unions as Lightning service providers
3:00:22 Rehypothecation risk and Aave
3:01:39 NCUA, not FDIC
3:02:07 Where to learn more about The Bitcoin Pivot
3:02:52 Peter Todd arrives and the stream pauses
Time stamps:
0:00 Stream warm-up
2:29 Ekrem Bal: Citrea pivots to privacy with Crest
7:22 Privacy and scalability on Citrea
11:30 Privacy as protection from physical attacks
16:00 Lessons from almost a year on mainnet
19:00 User feedback and the Clementine web app
20:13 Alpen, garbled circuits and Clementine v2
21:33 Next use cases: lending, vaults and agent spending limits
22:51 Making Citrea post-quantum
26:21 Great Script Restoration and trust assumptions
29:29 OP_CAT vs CTV vs template hash
31:26 How Crest differs from Tornado Cash
33:12 Railgun and proof of innocence
33:53 Why build on Bitcoin instead of Ethereum
36:23 Favorite fork: Taproot and Zcash envy
38:19 The eCash replay trick
41:24 Skiing and mountaineering
42:51 110 BTC on Citrea
43:34 Kevin Loaec joins
44:31 First and last TABConf and the unconference format
46:21 A bad year: Coldcard, Liquid and Liana
48:00 Stu joins
48:41 Vaults vs Liana’s timelocks
51:59 Most interesting guest and 10 hour episodes
54:02 Forks magazine
55:32 Script emulation on Bark
56:08 Liana videos and Revault
57:32 Favorite covenant and enforced amounts
59:40 Wrench attacks and Liana’s exposure
1:01:07 Ledger leaks and buying hardware online
1:03:41 Coldcard’s RNG bug, license and bounties
1:06:07 Andrew joins: Spaces Protocol
1:10:30 Buffer joins
1:10:55 3,700 spaces and @bitcoin handles
1:11:18 The TABConf name giveaway and delegation
1:14:39 Nacho and payment handles
1:15:39 Burning @tabconf forever
1:17:45 32 bytes on chain and cert relays
1:19:15 Client-side validation and censorship resistance
1:20:18 One click install on StartOS
1:21:14 How Spaces makes money
1:22:17 What stops an alt Spaces?
1:24:01 Namecoin, squatters and 10 auctions a day
1:27:25 Utility: Nacho and social proofs
1:29:37 Don’t reuse your name address: silent payments
1:32:19 Spaces and Bitcoin’s scalability
1:33:39 Do names expire?
1:35:43 One character names
1:37:10 Insight gateways, Nostr and Blossom
1:40:43 The Fabric resolver
1:41:23 Handle pricing
1:44:02 Where to learn more about Spaces
1:47:00 Spaces and the forks
1:53:44 Last call for @tabconf handles
1:55:42 Goodbye Andrew and Buffer
1:57:34 Hallway break
2:00:00 Kevin Loaec returns: Paris, Sparrow and Miniscript
2:05:26 Funding open source without begging users
2:12:33 A horrible year: hacks and forks
2:13:47 Bitcoin follows the crowd
2:28:55 New guest and matching watches
2:29:57 What makes you bullish about Bitcoin?
2:31:05 Closing hallway chatter
2:43:10 Part 2: Back online: The Bitcoin Pivot and the three C’s
2:47:39 How credit unions will custody bitcoin
2:49:28 An advisory firm with vendor-agnostic partners
2:51:47 Why TABConf is welcoming
2:52:26 Feedback and the wave of credit union mergers
2:56:32 Credit unions vs banks: the not-for-profit mission
2:58:32 Lightning and paying with Bitcoin
2:59:10 Credit unions as Lightning service providers
3:00:22 Rehypothecation risk and Aave
3:01:39 NCUA, not FDIC
3:02:07 Where to learn more about The Bitcoin Pivot
3:02:52 Peter Todd arrives and the stream pauses
