SLP99 Andrew Chow - Hardware Wallets And Bitcoin Core With HWI And PSBT

SLP99 Andrew Chow - Hardware Wallets and Bitcoin Core with HWI and PSBT

Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core developer at Blockstream joins me on this episode to speak about his work on HWI - Hardware Wallet Interface and PSBT - Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions. We cente the advantages of PSBT and Hardware Wallet Interface in making Bitcoins consumer interface higher for customers who need to do multi sig or work together with {hardware} wallets utilizing Bitcoin Core.

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We discuss:

Andrews background

Why PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions) is required

HWI - Hardware Wallet Interface

Output descriptors

Derivation paths

Use of PSBT for CoinBecoming a member of and Multi-Sig

Where HWI goes from right here

Andrew Chow Links and different hyperlinks mentioned in episode:

Andrew Chow Twitter: https://twitter.com/achow101

Andrews Stack Exchange account: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/48884/andrew-chow

Andrew Chow Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/achow101

Bitcoin-Core HWI github hyperlink: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI

PSBT: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/psbt.md

Stack Exchange - Pieter Wuille reply on output descriptors: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/89281

Output descriptors hyperlink: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md

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