Running a Lightning Node and the Future of Access

Lisa Neigut of base58 and btcplusplus rejoins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin layer 2’s, where bitcoin’s lightning network is going, BTC++ and teaching Bitcoin developers at base58.We talk:

• Views on other L2 protocols
• LN technology
• How important is APO for LN? 
• BTC++
• nix and reproducibility
• Base58

Links:

• niftynei
• base58.school
• https://btcplusplus.dev/ 

Prior and relevant episodes:

• SLP168 Lisa Neigut – Lightning Network Channel Accounting and Dual Funded Channels
• SLP488 Future Visions of Lightning, Greenlight & Breez SDK with Christian Decker and Roy Sheinfeld
• SLP502 Validating Lightning Signer – Ken Sedgwick
• SLP195 Nix-bitcoin: A Security Focused Bitcoin Node
• SLP505 MuSig2 in Practice, APO, CTV & Bitcoin Soft Forks with Brandon Black
• SLP507 Bitcoin Cryptography and Scripting with Andrew Poelstra

Sponsors:

• Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
• Mempool.space
• Base58

Stephan Livera links:

• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast