The Long Term Consequences of Premature Ossification

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Bicoin is competing for public awareness and is obviously winning, but it's also competing for new entrance to the crypto space. i think that the premature ossification is another kind of manifestation of this, a unhealthy conservatism with respect to the protocol and with respect to the community. Is when you want to get involved in crypto, you go to bit con first, a some old timer tells you, you're not supposed to be doing that, and then you probably stumble on a theorium and start building there....

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.