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Obi Nwosu (Fedi) on Second-Party Custody with Fedimint (EP.344)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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The Idea of Multiple People Holding a Bit Coin

Before bitqoin, you could only have one person holding the cash. There was no way to get a ten dollar note and have five or six people hold it. A block stream came up with the idea of liquid and side chang - they needed a way to hold the bit coin on behalf of multiple people in this autimateo fashion. They popularized an idea called federations which is a way of effecting taking a process that would normally bem implemented and executed by just one person.

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