Stacker Chats
Defining Smart Contracts For Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali
November 19, 2021
Muneeb Ali (Stacks Founder and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) chat about Smart Contracts for Bitcoin and answer some commonly asked questions on open vs. federated networks. This episode took place on 11.17.2021.
Muneeb Ali (Stacks Founder and CEO, Hiro) and Gina Abrams (Special Projects, Hiro) chat about Smart Contracts for Bitcoin and answer some commonly asked questions on open vs. federated networks. This episode took place on 11.17.2021.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:15 How do you define smart contracts on Stacks, and how do you distinguish them from Taproot?
9:34 How do Stacks smart contracts interact with Bitcoin?
13:35 Can you talk about future research into how Stacks smart contracts can write to Bitcoin?
17:57 Can you talk more about federated vs. open networks and any design space in between the two?

Links and resources:
Earlier episode on Stacks' Bitcoin connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Qv1...
Muneeb Ali https://twitter.com/muneeb
Gina Abrams https://twitter.com/Gina__Abrams