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WiM026 - Money Hierarchies with Nik Bhatia

The "What is Money?" Show

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Lightning Network

Lightning network is definitely one of the original things that just captured my imagination about bit coin. So a bit coin becomes a nob it becomes a no brainer for a financial system away from digital gold like like that. And, ye, we'll get deeper into that later in the book, but i remember that. I mean, that's how i've discovered your work, frankly. You were writing about a time value bit coin in the lightning network. But lighting that work is fundamentally different too, and that it is a trust as trust minimise of a scaling solution as you could possibly have. You're trusting smart contracts instead of people, which is really interesting.

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