EB69 Thomas Voegtlin - Electrum, Spv Wallets And Bitcoin Aliases

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Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was started in 2011 and played a key role in the development of the light-weight SPV wallets. Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us for a discussion of Electrum, their recent 2.0 release and the rapidly evolving Bitcoin wallet space in general.

Topics covered included:

• The evolution of Bitcoin wallets and what motivated him to start Electrum


• Electrum 2.0 and its new features such as Multi-sig and hardware wallet support


• The security tradeoffs between using an SPV wallet versus a full node client


• How Bitcoin aliases could do away with Bitcoin addresses

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Electrum: http://electrum.org


• Electrum Github Repo: http://ift.tt/1aICkTS


• On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in LightweightBitcoin Clients: http://ift.tt/1BkPNBV


• BIP 39: http://ift.tt/1ifbbvt


• BIP 37: http://ift.tt/1lMjFgh


• Versum MIT paper: http://ift.tt/1xOk0F4

Sponsors:

• Shapeshift: http://shapeshift.io

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