# Tim Ruffing

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SLP337 Salvatore Ingala - Ledger’s New Bitcoin App: PSBT, Taproot, Descriptors, Multi-Sig

Salvatore Ingala of Ledger joins me to talk about a big revamp of the Ledger Bitcoin app which brings support for a whole host of new features. We chat about: How the app shifted from v1 to v2 PSBT Taproot support Descriptors Merkle Trees Improved multi-signature and scripting sup…

SLP400 Jonas Nick & Tim Ruffing - Half Signature Aggregation: What is it and how does it help scale Bitcoin?

Jonas Nick & Tim Ruffing, bitcoin researchers and contributors at Blockstream rejoin me on the show, this time to chat about half signature aggregation. This is a scaling technique that can help scale Bitcoin and enable more transactions inside a block or help with L2 protocols. We discuss: How…

SLP433 v2 P2P Transport Protocol for Bitcoin Core (BIP324) with Pieter Wuille Dhruv and Tim Ruffing

Dhruv, Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing join me on the show to talk about their project to bring encryption to Bitcoin Core. We discuss: What the current state of things is Packet inspection and making bitcoin slightly more private The new proposal for encryption Impact on nodes Feedbac…

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing, Schnorr, MuSig, FROST and more - Episode 26

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing treat us to a conversation about Schnorr, multi-signatures, MuSig, and more. We covered a lot so this is part one of a two part conversation. We discussed: - When to roll your own cryptography (01:31) - Schnorr Signatures (09:01)   - Why is Schnorr preferable to …

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing - Nesting, ROAST, Half-Aggregation, Adaptor Signatures (part 2)

We continue the conversation with Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing and Nesting, ROAST, Half-Aggregation, Adaptor Signatures, atomic swaps and more. If you have not tuned into the first part of this conversation, we recommend listening to that one first. We cover: - Nesting (00:49) - ROAST (12:09…

Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss BIP 324, the proposal by Dhruv, Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing to add peer-to-peer (P2P) encryption to the Bitcoin protocol. They explain why this is needed, how it would work, and which problems it would, and wouldn’t solve. Episode …

Bitcoin Cryptography and Scripting with Andrew Poelstra SLP507

Andrew Poelstra (Director of Research, Blockstream) has been around Bitcoin research and development for a long time, and has a lot of insight to share on Bitcoin research in this episode. For part 2 of my discussion with Andrew we focus more on bitcoin and cryptography research that the team are w…

BR050 - Libsec Panel ft. Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Lloyd Fournier, Jesse Posner & Rijndael

I'm joined by Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Lloyd Fournier, Jesse Posner & Rijndael to discuss libsecp. Discussion Topics 00:01:13 Guest intros 00:04:18 Importance of libsecp 00:11:21 Why libsecp was invented 00:15:44 The process of adding Schnoor 00:17:14 Tools and testing 00:25:43…

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #365 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365. News ● Testing compact block prefilling (1:13:00) ● Mempool-based fee estimation library (1:33:53) Changing consensus ● Migration from qu…

Perfect Number Day and the Road to Schnorr

We celebrated June 28 as “Perfect Number Day” and finally told one of my favorite origin stories behind this whole project: a late-night drive home from a Phish show with Kayla, where a quick conversation about why 6 and 28 are perfect numbers turned into a full-blown family math obsession. We revi…