Welcome back to The Gwart Show! We are joined by the 4th most important Taproot Wizard, Udi Wertheimer, to discuss, well, male pattern baldness. We also dive into the wizards roadmap (not just JPEGS) like CATVM, the use-cases for L2s, how blockspace doesn’t solve blockspace issues and why ETH Maxis just keep losing.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:54 Taproot Wizards update

01:39 Technical roadblocks

03:34 What new tech should Bitcoin have?

05:36 Are DeGens our saviors?

10:05 Lack of product market fit for crypto tech

11:55 SOL Degen = BTC Maxi?

14:59 Is DeFi interesting at all?

18:11 CATVM

20:46 Vision for CATVM

23:39 Where are the L2 use cases?

27:12 ETH roll up roadmap

31:02 Can't scale blockspace w/ more blockspace

33:33 CATVM does NOT solve scaling

36:36 On chain lending?

40:30 BITVM

43:15 VCs backing BITVM

46:03 Are tokens NOT terrible?

51:41 ETH maxis suck at predicting the future

1:00:17 Where are we at in 5 years?

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