Podcasts: Elle Mouton, Oliver Gugger and Simple Taproot Channels - Episode 33 🔗 41 weeks ago
- Category: Podcasts | The Chaincode Podcast
- Author(s): Chaincode Labs
- Published: 17th July 2023 20:22
Elle Mouton and Oliver Gugger join us to talk with us about the Simple Taproot Channel proposal.
We cover:
- Simple Taproot Channels Overview (1:29)
- What’s the state of the spec? (3:06)
- Changes to the scripts in Taproot Channels (4:31)
- Refresher on CPFP carve-out and Anchor Outputs (8:19)
- Why Anchor Outputs need to use script path spends (10:24)
- Other goals of Simple Taproot Channels (15:52)
- Why do PTLCs need Taproot funding outputs? (16:44)
- Potential updates for the gossip protocol: Gossip 1.5 or Gossip 2.0 (18:13)
- PTLCs (25:22)
- Iterative approach or big push (27:19)
- Recoverability of channel funds (33:06)
