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Oct 2019
1h 15m

SLP113 Dhruv Bansal - Bitcoin Multisig &...

STEPHAN LIVERA
About this episode

Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital rejoins me in this episode to talk about some bitcoin open source contributions Unchained Capital are making, as well as Unchained Capital products and services. Learn more about multi signature, Shamir’s secret sharing, and how Unchained are applying Bitcoin to financial services.

We talk:

  • Multisig Vaults
  • Open sourced multisig software
  • Hermit - Shamir’s Secret Sharing

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