Bitcoin Podcast
Steve Lee and Matt Corallo of Spiral rejoin me on the show to talk about a range of topics. Firstly we discuss the Great Consensus Clean Up which relates to fixing some long standing bugs in Bitcoin. Secondly we talk about MEV and why it’s the wrong term, instead we should be talking about MEVil and the implications for Bitcoin miner centralisation. Finally we address the rumours of Lightning Network being dead or not useful.
How do we interact with Bitcoin in a multi layer world? What cost savings and trade offs are necessary here? What even counts as a layer? Kilian from boltz.exchange joins me to talk about swapping across Bitcoin on-chain, Lightning and Liquid.
Get an overview of lightning wallets in this episode with Anita Posch. Anita walks through what she found in testing self custodial lightning wallets under conditions of poor internet connectivity. We also talk about themes that came up at the recent Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town South Africa.
How many people can use Bitcoin and Lightning today? Severin Buhler from Synonym joins me to talk about the LSP spec as well as lightning development.
Bitcoin’s mining ecosystem centralization and possible solutions are discussed with Bitcoin Mechanic from Ocean. Topics include hashers vs miners, pool payout methods, Stratum v2, block withholding attacks, what Ocean is doing about it, fees, and lightning payouts.
Are you interested in building support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into your product or service? Check out this discussion of Greenlight with Blockstream’s Christian Decker.
Will Cole from Zaprite discusses several topics related to the adoption of their platform by merchants. These include improved custody, how Zaprite works, accounting and integration, and how adoption will be driven this time. Additionally, they touch on the concept of a circular economy.
How can you earn bitcoin even if your employer doesn’t directly pay with bitcoin? Jonathan Chester of Bitwage joins me to explain
What happens under a high fee environment on the lightning network? We had one recently and so I asked Niftynei […]
Erik Cason joins me on the show to talk about his journey as a Bitcoiner, from working at Coinbase to […]