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EB69 – Thomas Voegtlin - Electrum, SPV Wallets And Bitcoin Aliases
Support the show, consider donating: 3FMdbKo5sSECh1FANkCi1tr8hQgpVuhBYC (http://bit.ly/1E5PoTC) 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: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum - On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/763.pdf - BIP 39: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki - BIP 37: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0037.mediawiki - Versum MIT paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/vandenhooff-versum.pdf Sponsors: - Shapeshift: http://shapeshift.io Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/069 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc