Joost Jager, Lightning Network Infrastructure Engineer at Lightning Labs, joins me in this episode to talk about Lightning Loop Out and In. We also discuss some of the recent criticisms of the Lightning Network by Peter Rizun. We talk:

How Lightning Loop helps you manage inbound liquidity, or pay with BTC on chain to get outgoing capacity on a lightning channel
Practical uses of Lightning Loop technology
Some of the technicals behind how Lightning Loop e.g. hodlinvoice
Thoughts and responses to Peter Rizun's criticisms of the Lightning Network

Joost Jager links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joostjgr
Loop Out post: https://blog.lightning.engineering/technical/posts/2019/04/15/loop-out-in-depth.html
Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/index.html#home

Stephan Livera links:

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SLP68 Joost Jager - Lightning Loop Out/In, and Lightning Network Criticisms