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BTC141: Can Bitcoin Lightning Scale Globally w/ Alexander Leishman (Bitcoin Podcast)

Aug 2, 2023

51:10

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Pros and Cons of a Bitcoin ETF

4min

The Future of Cryptocurrencies

3min

How to Get Payment Flow in a Lightning Network

4min

The Lightning Network Killer App Solves the Inbound Liquidity Issue With Lightning

3min

The Future of Lightning Protocols

2min

The Importance of Choosing a Bitcoin Partner

3min

NetSuite by Oracle: The Number One Cloud Financial System

3min

The Importance of Layer One in AI

4min

10.

The Future of Lightning Commerce

2min

11.

The Turing Test: How Artificial Intelligence Can Create Market Value

5min

12.

The Origins of River's Value Prop

2min

13.

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Alone Is Redefining Money

2min

14.

How MiniScript Is Changing the Cryptocurrency Industry

4min

15.

How to Learn to Speak Spanish With Babble

5min

16.

How to Talk About Bitcoin

4min

17.

Alex Odels on Bitcoin

4min

Preston Pysh and Alexander Leishman talk about whether the Lightning Network has the scaling capacity to take on global transactions without centralizing forces compromising the Bitcoin mission.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:19 - A Bitcoin ETF and what it means.

04:15 - Is the competition from other domains causing the SEC to approve an ETF?

05:23 - Is there concern with Bitcoins from ETFs being used to create yield inside the ETFs?

09:55 - Explain the Lightning API at River.

13:44 - Is Bitcoin scalable with just Lightning?

13:44 - Is the Bitcoin layer 2 Ark Proposal a viable solution for Layer 2?

27:19 - Is AI something that needs Bitcoin layer 2 to scale?

35:46 - Why did you found River - what was the value proposition?

41:47 - What was life like at River with all the "crypto crackdown" happening?

43:42 - What are the incentives for people to own their own rig and mine bitcoin versus just owning it?

49:40 - Rapid fire: get to know Alex.

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