Liquid Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow
Podcast |
What Bitcoin Did
Publisher |
Peter McCormack
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
Government
Investing
Technology
Publication Date |
May 19, 2020
Episode Duration |
Unknown

Location: ZoomDate: Friday 15th MayProject: BlockstreamRole: CEO & Chief Strategy Officer

Bitcoin: decentralised, permissionless, censorship-resistant and unconfiscatable. Unique properties which make it a unique form of money

For Bitcoin to keep growing, these features mustn't be compromised. However, scaling solutions for Bitcoin, may trade off some of these features for other benefits.

With the vast majority of the community in agreement that block sizes must remain small to maximise decentralisation, Bitcoin is best scaled using layered solutions. The Liquid Network, like the Lightning Network, is a layer two solution that, by sacrificing some aspects of decentralisation and censorship resistance, can improve speed and scalability.

Liquid is a project spearheaded by Blockstream and is aimed at traders, exchanges and market makers to offer faster and more confidential transactions than the Bitcoin basechain. It also adds the ability to build tokens on the network.

In this interview, I talk to Adam Back and Samson Mow Blockstream's CEO & Chief Strategy Officer. We discuss The Liquid Network, the tradeoffs between Liquid and the basechain, how it differs from Lightning network and tokenised securities.

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WBD224 Show Notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/liquid-bitcoin-with-adam-back-samson-mow

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