Elle Mouton and Oliver Gugger join us to talk with us about the Simple Taproot Channel proposal. We cover: Simple Taproot Channels Overview (1:29) What’s the state of the spec? (3:06) Changes to the scripts in Taproot Channels (4:31) Refresher on CPFP carve-out and Anchor Outputs (8:19) Why Anchor Outputs need to use script path spends (10:24) Other goals of Simple Taproot Channels (15:52) Why do PTLCs need Taproot funding outputs? (16:44) Potential updates for the gossip protocol: Gossip 1.5 or Gossip 2.0 (18:13) PTLCs (25:22) Iterative approach or big push (27:19) Recoverability of channel funds (33:06)