Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch and mini-script fan boy, joins The Gwart Show to break down the nuances behind Bitcoin script, why we should’t be scared of a soft fork for rollups (if we need one!) and what a world with more Bitcoin functionality looks like. Rob and Gwart embark on discussions of L2 tokens, Bitcoin consensus rules and the value of VCs in Bitcoin. 

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:32 Rob's background

03:13 2013-2022

05:37 What is AnchorWatch?

13:02 Miniscript

19:53 Target user of AnchorWatch

21:33 Current Bitcoin development

35:45 Covenant use cases

38:34 Stablecoins

42:16 USD to BTC rails

44:41 Do rollups scale?

50:38 Challenges of trustless rollups

1:00:04 VC funding coming to Bitcoin

1:03:30 Ponzi coming to Bitcoin

1:13:29 End of altcoin ponzi games?

1:16:40 Do stablecoins need decentralized chains?

1:20:41 Bitcoin & IRL resources

1:23:06 Blockchain commodity value

1:25:23 Token unlocks

1:30:34 Government permission required

1:36:27 AnchorWatch as a memecoin

1:39:43 Funding for ideas

1:45:49 Antpool centralization via proxies

1:52:13 Lacking developer funding

1:57:20 P2P node encryption

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