The Security Model of Liquid Isn't What You Sign Up For

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I made a few assumptions. I assuaged that block stream didn't know about it, which later turned out to be false. Especially, as we learnd later, there were already, at least some people inside buxomre already aware that this was an issue. And i think this was the same assumption again, because i had gone and found multiple historical instances were bit had become vulnerable and not been stolen....

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.