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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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Bitcoin Scales Through Lightning Network

Exchanges today are adopting something called Lightning Network, which is a way to scale Bitcoin on a second layer. Exchanges don't care about privacy; they're doing it because it reduces fees. Cross Input Signature Aggregation may compel exchanges to collaboratively spend all their Bitcoin together in a way that really protects our privacy and fights surveillance.

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