The last time bioin had a protocal upgrade was seguid in twenty seventeen. We're pushing three years since that happened. Before that, there was a major soft fork at least once every year since bitcoin's inception. i'd like to see more discussion of how we can introduce safe, powerful upgrades for beck coin? You know, we spent the first, like half of this podcast talking about liquid. Liquid is a federation because bitcoin won't permit it to be anything better....
In this episode, Su and Hasu are joined by James Prestwich, one of the leading technical experts and thinkers in this space.
Topics covered:
- What is Blockstream Liquid
- The bug James found
- Disclosure and aftermath
- Sidechains, channels, plasma, and rollups
- How Bitcoin isolates itself from innovation happening on other chains (recommended reading)
- Bitcoin in DeFi
Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital.
Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer.
Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.