SLP7 - Earning Interest on Bitcoin's Lightnin...

In this episode, Mike Schmidt executive director of Brink, and volunteer coordinator for the consortium, explains how the group formed, autonomy over funding, and how it plans to avoid repeating earlier centralized roadmap fights.Timestamps:00:55 — Quantum Risk and the Consortium ...  Show more

Buchner, known for his work on decentralized identity at Proof, brings a technical and game-theoretic lens to the debate over Bitcoin's monetary focus versus attempts to restrict arbitrary data.The conversation covers narrative shifts driving spam to Bitcoin, the limits of relay ...  Show more

Discover the philosophical and technical rationale behind "Bitcoinizing the dollar," how Lightning Network's architecture enables seamless asset conversion without trusted intermediaries, and the emergence of Bitcoin yield through liquidity provision. The speakers explain how thi ...  Show more

This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.    On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Nik Bhatia, author of “Layered Money” and The Bitcoin Layer newsletter. They discuss: Bitcoin’s relationship with equities and the TradFi markets Why the Fed is trapped by rates mark ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: What is Bitcoin's second layer? Where does lightning labs fit into the second layer What is Lightning pool? How is liquidity managed on the second layer Why does a person have an incentive to run a node Why open channel with other nodes What are the ...  Show more

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is evolving into a global payments system, with over 21,000 active nodes enabling fast, low-cost transactions. Tether’s integration of USDT via the Taproot Asset Protocol could disrupt traditional finance, lowering transaction costs and increasing effi ...  Show more