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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Bitcoin

I think that's what you're getting with the boiling oceans is this is like the impact on weather on the environment. So looking at some of these, no CEO, I think we... We've already hit on the dies. No merchants. That's no longer true. There's a scalability one and I think that one is addressed. The idea that you're mentioning with the block size debates and the lightning network that by adding extra layers on top, you can achieve scalability. That's my theory. And you can do it in a permission list and a permission way like Coinbase is a big Bitcoin exchange. They provide scalability. You can settle up internally on their own database and

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