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Rusty Russell MEMBER SINCE 2024

Rusty Russell

@rustyrussell

Blockstream

3editions
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Century Metadata: Small Encrypted Data, Long Storage

This talk described a new project I'm starting: a service to keep small encrypted blobs of data for a small fee, and make them available for a century. A reliable service that does that would bolster the utility of BIP-39 words: allowing retention of wallet descriptors, labels and other instructions which otherwise require some additional data. We'll talk about privacy, standards and eencryption, as well the legal framework required for a project which will outlive us all.

Vienna 2026
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Getting Transactions Mined with Sponsorship

A re-evaluation of how to sponsor transactions and get transactions into blocks. NOTE THIS IS A REMOTE TALK

Austin 2025
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Panel: Battle of the Covenants

What is a covenant? What are the challenges around adding this functionality to bitcoin? Join a panel of experts led by the legendary Jusneth as we dig into defining the different proposals for covenant updates and the tradeoffs around each of them.

Austin 2024
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The Great Script Restoration Project

You're probably aware that v0.3.1 of Bitcoin disabled numerous Script opcodes, most famously OP_CAT. Bringing them back unlocks a great deal of power, and there are a few additional opcodes that complement them well in a modern Bitcoin system (such as key addition). This talk aims to present a coherent model for making Bitcoin Script as capable as I think it can be, while avoiding the pitfalls which caused it to be hobbled in the first place.

Austin 2024