John Carvalho is the CEO of Synonym, a company working on a number of Bitcoin and identity products and protocols including their Bitkit wallet, their Blocktank LSP, their Slashtags protocol, and their collaboration with Holepunch on Pear Credit.
In our conversation we talked about the business case for building an LSP, the unique features of Bitkit, the vision for Pear Credit, and the identity landscape with overlapping protocols in Slashtags, TBD, and Nostr.
→ Synonym: https://synonym.to/
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:47 - John Carvalho Intro
05:05 - Blocktank and the LSP Business
13:22 - Demand for Lightning Network Liquidity
32:52 - Regulations and the Lightning Network
41:24 - Removing IP Addresses from the Lightning Protocol
43:59 - How The BitKit Wallet Works
1:02:23 - The Vision for Pear Credit
1:16:01 - Tokens on the Internet
1:27:59 - How Slashtags Works
1:36:53 - Slashtags vs. TBD
1:46:04 - Can Multiple Web Identity Systems Succeed?
1:58:42 - The Lightning Round
