Luke Dashjr, long time Bitcoin Core contributor joins me on the show to discuss his views on how UASF went down in 2017. We talk through the various trade offs and points around Taproot activation and why he believes that LOT = True maximally reduces the risks.

We chat:

Luke’s background
BIP91, BIP148
Miner signalling
Chainsplits
Average user and code review
Speedy Trial
Small blocks

Luke links:

Twitter: @LukeDashjr
Mastodon: @LukeDashjr
Email: luke@dashjr.org

Relevant prior episodes:

SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken
SLP137 AJ Towns – Schnorr Taproot Tapscript BIPs
SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CompassMining.io
Hodl Hodl Lend
CypherSafe
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

SLP260 Luke Dashjr How Bitcoin UASF Went Down, Taproot LOT=True, Speedy Trial, Small Blocks

Stephan Livera Podcast

SLP260 Luke Dashjr How Bitcoin UASF Went Down, Taproot LOT=True, Speedy Trial, Small Blocks