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09:58 GSR activation
18:13 Covenants and layer-2s
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23:59 Bolt12 and Lightning Network spec
26:26 Greenlight: non-custodial Lightning-as-a-service
29:56 X-Pay plugin for Core Lightning
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45:47 Bitcoin in 2025
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Learn about the global investment opportunities unlocked by the HSVIL token for financing the new Hampton by Hilton at San Salvador Airport with Michelle Matioda, Director at Mikro Capital and Roberto Laguardia, CEO of Inverlag. Investment details:🌊 Aim to raise $6.25M🎟️ 10% coupon over 5 years✋ Minimum investment of $1,000Hosted by Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at @Bitfinexexchange.🧑💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🏦 Register for the next Bitcoin Capital livestream📱 Download Blockstream Green wallet 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning
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02:19 Getting started in Bitcoin
04:22 Buying and selling Bitcoin on Relai
05:42 The benefits of a non-custodial architecture
07:54 Integrating non-custodial Lightning wallets in Relai
09:20 Partnering with Greenlight by Blockstream
10:45 Why Relai chose to integrate with Greenlight
12:56 Improving the user experience on Lightning
14:32 Greenlight integration process
17:17 Lightning adoption activity on Relai
21:10 Overcoming the challenges of integrating Lightning
23:40 Advice for enterprizes looking to integrate Lightning
25:08 What’s next for Relai?
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51:21 Aqua wallet roadmap
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02:53 Bitcoin circular economies in Africa
06:19 Fairer Bitcoin for the global south
07:36 Trade-offs between Lightning, Liquid and Fedimint
09:27 The blockchain trilemma
10:25 Interoperability between Lightning and Liquid
12:54 Understanding the Liquid Federation
16:43 Covenants on the Liquid Network
20:19 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network
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02:09 The power of the Bitcoin Italia community
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05:42 Building Bitcoin layer-2 tooling
08:08 Reasons for building on the Liquid Network
09:39 Common Liquid misconceptions
12:55 Using layer-2s to stack bitcoin
14:26 Bitcoin layer-1 scaling conversations
15:51 Sharing UTXOs utilizing covenants
17:26 The evolving narratives of Bitcoin
18:45 Bitcoin volatility’s effect on use cases
21:06 The effect of higher L1 fees
23:29 The difference between Elements and Liquid
24:38 Atomic swaps with Banco by Vulpem
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31:36 Bitcoin in 2024
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02:14 Introducing Samson Mow and JAN3
04:35 JAN3 approach to nation state orange pilling
08:44 Most receptive regions for nation state Bitcoin adoption
15:27 Bitcoin mining and nation state adoption
20:25 Geographical arbitrage and collectivism
24:32 AQUA wallet and Liquid BTC adoption
26:12 Key features of the AQUA wallet
30:33 Liquid based Tether (USDt)
32:25 Liquid FUD and Liquid derangement syndrome
35:49 Liquid and Lightning interoperability
38:22 Bitcoin layer-2 innovations
42:15 Bitcoin ETFs “Wild BTC vs Zoo BTC”
48:15 2024 and beyond for Bitcoin and JAN3
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02:13 Starting work on the Lightning Network
03:34 Differentiated features of Core Lightning
06:24 Working on “Lightning v2”
08:13 Greenlight: Lightning node as a service
11:53 The benefits of non-custodial architecture
12:41 Starting work on open-source projects
13:57 Recruitment for open-source projects
15:14 Marketing Bitcoin development opportunities
20:29 Lightning FUD
22:22 BTC Plus Plus developer conference
26:53 Base58: A Bitcoin protocol school
29:04 Boltz.Exchange: Liquid and Lightning swaps
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02:32 The history of Core Lightning
05:41 Spec driven philosophy of Core Lightning
08:38 Open-source development process of Core Lightning
10:00 Core Lightning’s use of plugins
13:06 Powering Greenlight with Core Lightning
18:58 Improving non-custodial access to Lightning with Greenlight
24:19 Developer and business onboarding to Greenlight
28:03 Greenlight: Non-custodial Lightning-as-a-Service
30:42 Interoperability of Bitcoin layer-2s Lightning and Liquid
33:40 Core Lightning and Greenlight look ahead
35:23 Core Lightning v23.11 “Bitcoin orangepaper”
42:47 Starting out building on Core Lightning
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02:15 Developing Lightning implementations from spec
10:10 Lightning Network global adoption
11:42 Integrating Lightning on Blockstream Green
14:02 Lightning payments with Miss Universe El Salvador
15:48 Development of new Lightning use cases
17:14 Enabling wumbo payments on Lightning
18:54 Custodial vs non-custodial
21:58 ETF vs self-custody not your keys not your coins
23:36 The importance of taking self-custody
26:40 Optimising Lightning around mainchain fees
31:20 Use cases for Greenlight by Blockstream
33:28 Using Lighting payments in GameFi
34:31 The Phoenix wallet by ASINQ
36:06 Liquid and Lightning layer-2 interoperability
37:15 Splicing and dual funding
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42:16 Starting development with Core Lightning
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02:00 Introduction to BTCPay Server
02:43 BTCPay Server and Baltic Honeybadger
04:26 Utilizing SideShift and Prism plugins on BTCPay Server 09:53 How merchants deal with Bitcoin volatility
13:35 Scaling Lightning payments custodial vs non-custodial
20:55 Onboarding merchants to Bitcoin with BTCPay Server
23:46 Bitcoin POS systems used at Baltic Honeybadger
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02:40 Bitcoin conferences around the world
06:22 introduction to HODL HODL & Debifi
13:06 Non-custodial operations with multisig
16:02 Institutional interest in peer-to-peer markets
21:36 Starting up Baltic Honeybadger
30:55 Baltic Honeybadger 2023 announcements
34:32 Debifi API availability for institutional investors
35:51 Different use cases for Lightning & Liquid
38:46 HODL HODL and the Liquid Federation
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41:38 Supported currencies on HODL HODL & Debifi
44:46 Different global use cases for Bitcoin
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48:46 The next 12 months in Bitcoin development
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02:00 What’s difficult about running a Lightning node?
06:42 Motivation for developing VLS
08:37 VLS basic security model
10:20 VLS hardware signing devices
11:17 VLS release status
13:46 VLS disaster recovery charter
17:15 VLS integration with Greenlight
18:34 UTXO set oracles
22:02 VLS validation rules
24:02 What’s next for VLS
25:17 Using multisignature with VLS
28:22 How to contribute to the VLS open-source project
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1:28 Introduction to Blockstream Research
14:04 The Codex32 paper computer
20:51 What is Shamir’s Secret Sharing?
27:21 How Jade protects key information
34:47 Implementing Miniscript in Blockstream Jade
38:31 Wen Simplicity on Liquid ser?
48:45 Formal verification with Simplicity
53:31 Using Simplicity for CTV & APO functionality
59:35 How drivechains differ from other layer-2s
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02:10 Erik’s path to Bitcoin
03:38 How Mt. Gox influenced Blockstream
06:26 Surviving multiple market cycles
23:29 Asset issuance on Liquid
28:29 Blockstream Mining Note
32:33 Crossover between Bitcoin & tradfi
35:15 Institutional interest in integrating Liquid
38:50 Working with Dr. Adam Back
42:10 Bitcoin adoption inflection points
44:41 Bitcoin usage in different markets
46:42 What’s next for Blockstream?
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02:00 Jeff’s role at Blockstream 03:00 Bitcoin layer-2 synergies
04:05 Lightning & Liquid’s effect on Bitcoin adoption
11:00 Greenlight 12:39 Integrating Lightning in Blockstream Green 14:11 Use cases developing on Liquid
18:00 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network
20:24 The Blockstream Jade Bitcoin hardware wallet
23:00 Non-custodial trading of Liquid assets on Jade
24:15 Control & privacy benefits of decentralized technology
30:34 Institutional interest in the Liquid Network 33:29 Up & coming Blockstream projects
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02:03 What is Bitcoin Reserve?
04:17 OTC desks in Bitcoin
09:30 Institutional pushback on self-custody
15:13 Bitcoin adoption demographics
17:40 Bitcoin Reserve's Liquid integration
21:05 Tether on Liquid
24:52 Being a Liquid Network member
26:47 Trustless swaps between Lightning & Liquid
27:39 A pick up in OTC activity
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48:35 Things to look forward to in Bitcoin
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01:46 What is Greenlight?
02:50 Challenges of running a Lightning node
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1:58 Las aplicaciones de blockchain en los mercados financieros
5:48 Los beneficios de usar estas tecnologías en los mercados financieros, tanto para los participantes del mercado como para los consumidores
15:06 Los desafíos principales que enfrenta la adopción de blockchain en los mercados financieros y cómo se pueden superar
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40:27: La industria de los pagarés y sus principales desafíos
49:01 Otras industrias que tienen similares desafíos y una gran razón para digitalizarse de la misma manera que los pagarés?
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Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today's conversation is with Scott Miller, founder of SideSwap. SideSwap is one of a growing list of companies building out financialand capital market applications on top of Bitcoin.The platform offers a decentralized peer to peer way to trade assets on the Liquid Network. Including security tokens like the Block Stream Mining Note. SideSwap also makes it easy to peg-in and peg-out of the Liquid Network, meaning you can easily flip between Liquid Bitcoin and Bitcoin point. If you find the conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe and share.2:14 Why build on Bitcoin?3:32 Colored Coins protocol5:32 How Atomic Swaps work8:00 The spectrum of decentralized finance8:52 What SideSwap is focused on12:14 Lessons from previous Bitcoin cycles12:57 The importance of Bitcoin based capital markets17:26 Issuing securities as bearer assets19:35 The tokenization of securities20:37 Transfer restricted asset technology25:12 Differences between CEX & DEX26:19 Private swaps on SideSwap27:22 What does PEGx do?31:46 Voting with Liquid digital securities35:48 Dealing with regulators when facilitating trades
Welcome to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're talking to Robin Linus and Lucas George of Zero Sync, a nonprofit working on technology that allows for a compact cryptographic proof to substitute the hundreds of gigabytes of information that make up the Bitcoin blockchain.Meaning the entire history of Bitcoin could be validated in an instant rather than in hours or days and when combined with something like the Blockstream Satellite, the implications are pretty far reaching. If you enjoyed this conversation don't forget to subscribe and share.2:39 Zero knowledge proofs5:36 What makes ZeroSync different?6:43 ZeroSync and Blockstream Satellite8:37 Benefits of ZKPs9:47 Development timeline11:34 Hardware requirements13:12 Use cases for the ZeroSync toolkit15:39 Stark proofs, Simplicity & the Liquid Network20:04 Security of ZeroSync proof systems23:45 Long term implications of ZKPs for Bitcoin
Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're talking to Rich Gramberg from the Jade productand support team. After a long list of blow ups over the last couple of quarters across the exchange, lending and fund spaces, and now also failures emerging within the banking sector,counterparty risk and the importance of self custody is really being highlighted. The topic of today's conversation is all things Jade covering the importance of taking self-custody your Bitcoin, where demand for hardware wallets is strongest, how to build your own device if you're so inclined, and new features that are in the pipeline for the second half of this year. If you find this conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe and share this conversation with your network.01:51 Major developments in the self-custody landscape03:41 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving08:55 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving12:35 Other Bitcoin wallets that Jade works with13:37 The Blockstream Jade reseller program15:21 Blockstream Jade blind pin server19:05 Other assets that Jade supports20:50 The next 12 months in Jade development22:53 Lightning integration in Blockstream Jade23:50 Blockstream Green UX development25:00 The Bitcoin hardware wallet market26:23 Tradeoffs between singlesig & multisig28:30 Common difficulties in bitcoin self-custody29:55 Demonstrating Jade at Bitcoin Park32:40 Common questions for Blockstream Support34:42 How the Jade DIY process works36:22 2023 look ahead for Blockstream Jade
Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today, we're talking to Tomás Alvarez, CEO and Co Founder of Mifiel. Thomas and his team are using the Liquid Network as issuance technology for promissory notes in Mexico. This promissory note market is big not only in Mexico but across Latin America. It's really interesting to see Liquids solve for some of the inefficiencies in the market. Streamlining the issuance process, facilitating cross border transactions, and then those benefits pulling in mainstream institutional investors. This is the direction markets are evolving. If you found this conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe and share.0:00 Introduction 01:05 The fundamental problem Mifiel is trying to solve 01:38 What is a promissory note and what kind of people are using 04:27 Other markets that utilize promissory notes 06:13 Dealing with challenges in technology adoption 07:57 Utilizing the Liquid Network for tokenization 9:52 Dealing with regulations and licensing considerations 11:17 Secondary market trading of promissory notes 16:02 Decentralization and promissory notes 19:53 Quantity of promissory notes issued by Mifiel 20:43 Interest rates on promissory notes 23:24 Demand for promissory notes 25:03 Handling defaults on promissory notes 26:47 Reasons for issuing on the Liquid Network 32:52 Short term outlook for Mifiel 37:09 Benefits of tokenization
Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today’s conversation is with Kyle Fry, CEO and Co-Founder at DIGTL Markets. Kyle and his team have been deep in the digital security trenches for a number of years already and have built up the network of securities exchanges and alternative trading venues to support digital security or security token trading. It's great to get Kyle's perspective on where they see the digital security industry evolving and why the Liquid Network is the best choice for issuers. If you enjoyed this conversation share it with your network. 03:25 What makes MERJ unique07:35 Different reasons for offshoring business11:25 The Blockstream Mining Note and US markets12:43 Security tokens & digital securities24:16 Evolution of capital markets34:35 How STOs can improve markets43:19 Building on the Liquid Network48:37 Risks and regulations after FTX crash52:31 Future outlook for asset issuers54:58 The STO industry in 10 years
Welcome to Blockstream Talk. Today's conversation is with Rusty Russell, a senior lightning network developer at Blockstream. Rusty is an OG contributor to open-source software and was tasked with helping transition the Lightning Network from an academic paper to a real world payment protocol seven years ago when he joined Blockstream. Lightning Network capacity is now up around five thousand bitcoin, pretty close to an all time high despite recent price weakness. Rusty highlights, reasons for growth, some new applications and also gives us a sneak peak into new features expected to be rolled out in the coming months. 01:27 Starting work on Lightning at Blockstream 03:44 Lightning Network global adoption 04:46 Work on Bolt12 Lightning spec 10:41 Factors driving Lightning adoption 15:15 Bookkeeping with Core Lightning 21:31 Lightning Network unlocking micropayments 23:45 Integrating Lightning into Blockstream Green 26:02 Lightning wallet recommendations 28:48 Thoughts on El Salvador Bitcoin and Lightning adoption 32:55 Working in the open-source software space 38:43 Comparing Bitcoin to Linux 47:33 Exciting things coming to Lightning
Welcome to Blockstream talk. Today’s conversation is with Blockstream's CEO and Co Founder, Dr. Adam Back, he joins us for a review of the ongoing meltdown of FTX and Alameda research. Adam is a wealth of knowledge and market context who offers a unique perspective when you try and figure out what has happened so far, how things could evolve going forward, and what are the key lessons for users and investors. As well as how would happen to Alameda and FTX matches up to previous blow ups. If you find this conversation useful, don't forget to share it with your network.
00:43 FTX failure overview 04:45 Bankruptcy vs recovery token 09:55 FTX post mortem 33:43 Exchange revenue rights model 39:05 Proof of keys day 52:14 Lessons for investors from FTX insolvency 59:16 The future of DeFi 1:20:48 Asset issuance on the Liquid Network 1:25:02 Bitcoin mining market conditions 1:29:15 Crypto bailout pool 1:32:47 Looking ahead on the Bitcoin network
Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today's conversation is with Matthew Haywood, product manager for Blockstream’s asset management platform.
The Liquid Network was originally conceived as a faster, cheaper, more confidential way to move bitcoin around. Over the last couple of years though, it's evolved to allow a lot more flexibility including the ability to issue and manage a variety of different assets. That includes transfer restricted assets which can be used to facilitate security token issuances.
Blockstream AMP allows you to quickly issue standards-based digital assets for applications such as security tokens and stablecoins. It offers detailed reports on user balances and allows you to track assets throughout ownership transfers. You can enforce granular ownership restrictions either through Blockstream AMP or your own authorization API.
We also touched on some really fundamental considerations in the security token space like, what is tokenization?
03:06 Path to Bitcoin 05:56 The Liquid Network 07:22 Other assets and AMP management 09:06 What is the Liquid Federation? 13:56 Governance within the Federation 16:17 L-BTC Peg in growth 18:03 L-BTC as the native token 20:15 L-USDt transaction volume 22:54 Different layer-2 use cases 25:44 Liquid documentation for institutions 26:58 Asset management platform 33:24 Threshold for Tokenisation 36:22 The new Asset Management Tool 42:10 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network 43:57 What’s next for the Blockstream Asset Management Platform
Welcome to Blockstream Talk, today's conversation is with Alyse Killeen founder and managing director of Stillmark, a Bitcoin focused venture capital firm. Alyse is very clear about the distinction that needs to be made between Bitcoin and crypto and we discuss how this applies to capital allocation within the venture capital industry, how Bitcoin VC is different from both traditional internet focused VC and also often more narrative driven crypto VC. This was a really good conversation if you found it useful don't forget to share it with your network.
04:05 Health of the VC industry 06:49 Pitching Bitcoin to investors 09:08 Differentiating Crypto and Bitcoin VC 12:10 Narrative investing within Crypto tokens 28:18 Capital allocation framworks 32:55 The future of security tokens 36:14 Bitcoin's importance globally 39:41 Most exciting work within Bitcoin
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Welcome to Blockstream Talk. Today's conversation is with Assaf Gilboa, Blockstream Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering. We discussed Blockstream’s acquisition of ASIC manufacturer Spondoolies and the new synergy created. We also went in depth on the centralization around the semiconductor foundry business and the bottleneck that is TSMC and Samsung as well as equipment order logistics and whether energy is the big pinch point constraining Hash rate growth. If you find this conversation useful, don't forget to share with your network. 05:29 Boom or bust in Bitcoin mining
07:22 What makes Spondoolies different?
09:20 Making ASIC parts easily replaceable
10:46 Blockstream and Spondoolies synergies
13:07 Optimizing Blockstream's Bitcoin mining
13:52 Air cooled and immersion mining
16:00 Institutional investment entering Bitcoin mining
18:17 Road map for Blockstream's upcoming ASIC machine
20:55 Centralization of chip foundry services
25:32 Essential advanced manufacturing processes
28:17 Foundry services planning rigidity
30:02 Difficulties in securing chip allocations
31:00 Bitcoin miners foundry requirements
32:14 Current selling pressure on miners
34:19 ASIC acquisition industry dynamics
39:24 ASIC price change implications
41:34 Mining industry consolidation during the bear market
43:33 Hashrate is looking for stability
46:43 Modelling Bitcoin hashrate and price
49:11 Why more manufacturers aren't in Bitcoin
53:00 Bitcoin mining in 5 years
58:39 The upcoming Blockstream ASIC
00:20 Personal privacy
00:58 Eric’s background
01:53 Freedom = privacy
03:41 Why work on Bitcoin?
05:07 Chaumian mints, ecash, Federations
08:43 Federated ecash
11:25 Federations in the future
12:57 Integrating Lightning into federations
16:20 Tokens
17:22 Lightning custodial usage
18:17 Minimint_btc
21:11 Bitcoin usage in El Salvador
23:16 Choosing a federated ecash
26:44 Exciting things moving forward
00:23 Discovering Bitcoin
02:38 Blockstream Wallet Offerings
05:05 Wallet Features
09:53 Lightning Integration
10:45 Long Term Wallet Development
11:50 Going Off-chain
12:13 Jade and Other Hardware Wallets
15:29 Wallet Security
24:36 Secure Elements
26:26 Self-custody best practices
30:11 Custodian Stress Tests
30:40 Exciting Bitcoin Developments
00:55 - What happened in the Terra ecosystem?
08:05 - Crypto market cap is a misleading metric
12:11 - UST failures effect on other stablecoins
23:40 - Incentives within the DeFi space
26:30 - Could the Luna situation have ended differently?
31:15 - Stablecoin velocity and resiliency
36:09 - Liquidity and backing within stablecoins
41:21 - Bitcoin stigma in banking
44:08 - Key lessons
Welcome to Blockstream Talk today's conversation is with Kerem Tibuk of BTCTurk one of the longest-running exchanges in the business. In times of extreme currency distress or aggressive, Capital controls, Bitcoin becomes the safe-haven asset of last resort and we see prices spike around these kind of events. Kerem offered his boots on the ground assessment of how these kind of events can translate into real world Bitcoin adoption. We also discussed the many trials and tribulations of being an exchange operator, in what is still a very hostile world. Enjoy the conversation. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share.
0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - Meeting Bruce
2:32 - What role does Bitcoin have in improving the future?
8:24 - Is the current world environment is taylor made for Bitcoin?
11:36 - How did the Bitcoin narrative change over time?
15:45 - Bitcoin transitioning to the medium of exchange
17:50 - Bitcoin beating adoption expectations
18:27 - What are the opportunities for digital securities and STO's?
25:36 - Is STO development being done within the United States?
31:25 - What other assets are being tokenized?
34:09 - What has been bottlenecking STO development?
36:55 - Democratization of finance
38:33 - Tokenizing low volume assets
41:44 - Securities becoming globalized
43:37 - Can securities be built upon Bitcoin?
50:53 - Bitcoin being the most secure blockchain
53:32 - Most interesting developments for Bitcoin in 2022?
56:47 - Where to find Bruce?
0:00 Introduction
01:07 Who is Paulo Ardoino?
02:14 Path to finding Bitcoin and working at Bitfinex
13:24 Reasons Bitfinex does not face downtime during high volatility
15:17 Bitfinex being the most battle tested exchange
16:17 What is the Liquid Network value proposition compared to altcoins?
22:03 The origin story of Tether and its success
23:53 Difficulties of running an exchange
25:07 Will Bitcoin become less volatile thus destroying altcoins and stablecoins?
31:10 Why would first world countries not care for Tether and other stablecoins?
35:23 Bitfinex response to their 2016 hack
42:41 Opportunities for Bitfinex Securities
48:39 Why are there so few security token exchanges?
50:38 Other types of assets that are important to Bitfinex
54:57 Updates on the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond
58:31 When will the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond be available?
59:54 Most exciting Bitcoin developments for 2022
0:00 Introduction
1:52 What is Blockstream researching?
4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?
15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?
21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?
28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?
32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?
34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?
39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?
48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?
54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?
59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?
1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?
1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption?
0:00 - Introduction
1:42 - What challenges do you have marketing products that are ahead of their time?
8:32 - Do you think mainstream media is anti-Bitcoin?
11:39 - What are the hardest parts of communicating Blockstream and Bitcoin to the public?
15:03 - Has marketing for Bitcoin become easier overtime?
15:54 - How do you see Bitcoin being used differently in other parts of the world?
23:13 - What is the sentiment of Tether around the world?
27:00 - Did your family ties to Argentina lead you down the Bitcoin rabbit hole?
34:26 - Thoughts on the future of stablecoins?
36:15 - Why is Liquid not more popular?
41:17 - What are some Blockstream milestones to look forward to in 2022?
42:30 - What are you looking forward to in Bitcoin for 2022?
0:44 - Introduction
1:35 - Biggest innovations happening in Bitcoin right now
4:11 - How long does a BIP take to get implemented into the Bitcoin protocol?
5:54 - What are Bitcoin's core principles?
8:32 - What off chain capabilities need to be deployed for Taproot to be considered successful?
13:43 - Thoughts on the 2017 fork wars and why small blocks won out
17:37 - Threats to Bitcoin that were bigger than the fork wars
19:09 - Impressions of El Salvador after visiting
21:49 - Do El Salvador citizens use Bitcoin for savings or for payment processing?
22:22 - Sentiment of Bitcoin amongst El Salvador citizens
24:20 - Surprising learnings after visiting El Salvador
26:19 - PTLC's in Lightning and the significance of having it on a day to day basis
29:54 - MuSig
31:45 - Predictions for Bitcoin in 2022
0:00 Introduction
1:13 Meeting Tuur
3:02 How the global financial crisis made Bitcoin interesting
5:30 Impressions of the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond
8:15 Details of the Bitcoin Bond in El Salvador
19:37 Path for emerging markets adopting Bitcoin
26:45 What the world looks like if the Bitcoin Bond is oversubscribed
28:24 Other products that can be improved with Bitcoin
34:59 Thoughts on democratization of general investing
35:40 Products in the traditional markets interesting for Bitcoin to adopt
42:55 Are there still cycles in Bitcoin?
45:14 Thoughts on Bitcoin price action
51:15 Crackdown in China
54:45 What's exciting in Bitcoin for 2022
0:00 - Introduction
1:11 - Meeting Arnab
2:05 - What is STOKR
3:51 - Current capital markets being outdated and what the future holds for them
7:35 - What is an STO and their difference between ICOs
11:22 - Liquid being a good way to issue STOs
13:00 - Privacy on Liquid being important
14:46 - Reasons for STOs becoming popular
16:56 - Benefits of tokenization
19:40 - Countries that are setting themselves up well with regulations
21:30 - U.S. being so hard to provide STO access to
23:06 - Large players getting interested in STOs
25:06 - Opportunities of STOs
29:44 - Bridging the old world to the new world
31:33 - Regulators views on STOs
35:20 - Thoughts on El Salvador bond
39:50 - Views on India adopting Bitcoin
42:42 - STOs in India
43:37 - Most exciting future developments in the Bitcoin world
46:17 - Where to find STOKR and Arnab
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Criticisms of the Liquid network
4:49 What is Hyperbitcoinization
6:24 Why would someone use the Liquid network
11:33 Views of Tether and other stable coins in Panama
14:49 Reasons to have stable coins on Liquid
16:09 Self custodian on Spectre
17:41 Using Spectre with Liquid assets
19:38 Hyperbitcoinization is ahead of schedule
22:09 What are the forces behind Hyperbitcoinization
25:29 Thoughts on people migrating to El Salvador
28:28 Thoughts on Bitcoin City
31:26 What is the El Salvador Volcano Bond and the overall sentiment of it
38:16 What is the most exciting thing in the world of Bitcoin going forward
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Jesse’s introduction
2:15 Jesse's journey from banker to bitcoin
4:32 Jesse trying to get banks to get involved in Bitcoin
10:50 What is BMN?
15:50 What is the future for BMN?
17:32 Paul Tudor Jones on investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoins network effects growing
20:39 Institutional investors taking a while to get into Bitcoin
21:55 Goals for Blockstream's acquisition of Adamant Capital
23:25 Macquarie's partnership with Blockstream
26:49 What is Blockstream markets newsletter
28:25 TA in bitcoin charts
30:48 What is Jesse most excited about for Bitcoin's future
32:10 Closing remarks
Welcome to Blockstream Talk #3
Our conversation today is with one of the worlds leading experts on the Lightning Network, Dr. Christian Decker.
Christian is also known as "Dr. Bitcoin" because his dissertation was the first distributed computing PhD to focus explicitly on Bitcoin.
His work on duplex micropayment channels actually predates the Lightning Network paper, but in a bizarre twist of faith it ended up being caught in academic review and publication ended up following after the publication of the Lightning Network paper.
In developer circles, Christian is seen as the inventor, or at least one of the inventors, of Lightning scaling solutions. So really there's no better person to talk about the current state and the future of the Lightning Network.
While investors have been looking at Bitcoin as a high-growth inflation hedge, but what's going on in El Salvador and how bitcoin is actually being used in emerging economies is really bringing the digital cash narrative back to the forefront.
So in this conversation, I was keen to get Christian’s views, not only the state of the Lightning Network now, but what could go wrong?
Is the Lightning Network ready for prime time and full integration - not into a platform or wallet - but into an entire economy?
As well as the role the Lightning Network in driving broader Bitcoin adoption in the years to come.
0:00 Intro
2:27 - What is the Lightning Network, and what problems is it trying to solve?
5:29 - Limitations of the Lightning Network
7:22 - Existing protocols tackling the scaling problem
9:54 - The blocksize war
11:34 - How Lightning interacts with Liquid
13:39 - Are the different Lightning implementations competing with each other?
15:52 - How far are we in terms of user adoption?
19:29 - The role of Lightning in Bitcoin´s ease of use
23:34 - Where is the biggest potential growth for Lightning in the next five years?
25:23 - The most important technical issues when scaling Lightning
28:12 - Why have exchanges been slow at integrating Lightning?
31:10 - What the implementation of Taproot and Schnorr signatures means for the Lightning Network
34:39 - Blockstream Greenlight
38:44 - Questions from the Blockstream Talk community on Twitter
50:23 - Exciting prospects for Bitcoin´s future
2:17 What is going on in China? Is mining done for good? 3:10 Can Chinese investors still buy and sell Bitcoin? 4:46 How important is Chinese retail to Bitcoin price appreciation? 5:26 What was the motivation behind China’s latest crackdown? 7:06 Is the mining hardware supply chain at risk? 9:06 Where has Chinese hashrate migrated to? How long will it take to recover? 10:58 Security Tokens will drive the reformation of traditional capital markets 13:02 Trading venues, technology, and regulations are coming together for STOs 15:42 There seems to be a groundswell of interest in NFTs, how is Liquid being applied to NFTs? 18:50 Is El Salvador the first domino for dollarized economies? 20:58 Bitcoin is turning out to be a global growth driver 20:25 What is the state of the Lightning Network at the moment and what does it need to grow? 24:06 Within all the things that you’re involved in, what excites you the most?
Evolutionary History of Bitcoin and early attempts at creating electronic cash -> 00:01:20 - 00:11:37
What could have been Satoshi's thought process when designing Bitcoin -> 00:11:38 - 00:16:28
Bitcoin is not a prototype, it simply has a narrow pocket of design space -> 00:16:40 - 00:20:19
Bitcoin is not old technology, it is one of the most active open source projects in existence -> 00:20:20 - 00:22:21
Adam's early days in Bitcoin -> 00:22:22 - 00:31:43
What were the biggest threats for Bitcoin in the early days? What are potential threats going forward? -> 00:31:44 - 00:38:41
Proper ways to decentralize financial instruments using Bitcoin: Blockstream Mining Note -> 00:38:42 - 00:43:29
What is Bitcoin's value proposition? Bitcoin appeals to different people for different reasons -> 00:43:31 - 00:49:35
What are the most exciting things to look forward in the Bitcoin space? -> 00:49:36 - 00:52:32
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Blockstream Talk, a new podcast that will provide a glimpse into all the cutting edge Bitcoin products and technologies being developed at Blockstream. The goal of this podcast is to introduce very interesting people and their projects in a format that is accesible to everyone regardless of your background.