Side Chains - What's Next?

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The term side chain has fallen out of fashion among like technical people, i see. So could you give us a high level over view over some of the layor two design space that is being explored by other block chains? Sure we still kind of divide lay or two into channels and a other chains, in a sense, like the same way we've done for years and years with lightning and side chains. But where bitcoin still talks about side chains a lot, most other chains have moved on to more granular terms....

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.