TLS83: Azz on Building Valera and Combining Lightning Software & Hardware To Bring Billions To Bitcoin

Azz is the 16 year old founder of Valera, a company uniting hardware and software to bring Lightning payments to billions of people around the world.

In our conversation, we discussed Indra, Valera’s Lightning node runtime for enabling near-zero cost Lightning nodes, we discussed the concept of connecting cold keys and wearable devices to your Lightning node, and we explored the idea of integrating hardware and software to build better products.

→ Valera: https://valera.co/

→ Indra Tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/617a7a/status/1594696672973570048

Sponsors

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→ Stakwork: https://stakwork.com/

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The best way to show your support is to download Fountain from the App Store, load your wallet with some sats, and send them over the Lightning Network to kerooke@fountain.fm.

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Links

→ Stack Sats: https://www.stacksats.how/

→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerooke

→ Books: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations

→ Blog: https://www.kevinrooke.com/blog

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:15 - Azz Intro

09:09 - What Is A Lightning Node Runtime?

11:31 - How Indra Works

21:59 - What Might Indra Developers Build?

23:58 - Cold Keys on the Lightning Network

35:27 - Lowering the Cost of a Lightning Node by 10,000x

38:51 - Performance Trade-offs of Indra

46:03 - Will Indra Improve Lightning Network Reliability?

50:49 - Valera’s Vision

1:07:08 - Valera’s Focus on Hardware & Software

1:20:48 - The Lightning Round