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
• Feedback wanted

Links:

• BIP324: Enable v2 P2P encrypted transport #24545
• https://github.com/dhruv/bips/blob/bip324/bip-0324.mediawiki
• Site: Bip324.com
• Twitter: @dhruv
• Twitter: @pwuille
• Twitter: @real_or_random

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Mempool.space
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
• Blockstream.com

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• Subscribe to the podcast
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