Sidechains & Blockstream Liquid

with Allen Piscitello

DATE 8 November 2019

DURATION 00:56:12

GUEST Allen Piscitello

Allen Piscitello, VP Product of Blockstream joins me to talk about Blockstream Liquid as a new model for inter exchange settlement, and the possibility of building out new financial infrastructure in a way different from the legacy financial system. We talk: • Tradeoffs and differences between approaches of Lightning, Statechains, and Liquid • How pegging Bitcoin in and out of Liquid works • Features that Liquid’s blockchain has e.g. Confidential Transactions and Confidential Assets • How Liquid can enable much faster inter exchange settlement with different tradeoffs • How to get started developing on it • What the future of bitcoin market structure could look like with Liquid adoption

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