Lightning: Bringing the Digital Cash Narrative Back with Christian Decker - Blockstream Talk #3

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2:27 - What is the Lightning Network, and what problems is it trying to solve?

5:29 - Limitations of the Lightning Network

7:22 - Existing protocols tackling the scaling problem

9:54 - The blocksize war

11:34 - How Lightning interacts with Liquid

13:39 - Are the different Lightning implementations competing with each other?

15:52 - How far are we in terms of user adoption?

19:29 - The role of Lightning in Bitcoin´s ease of use

23:34 - Where is the biggest potential growth for Lightning in the next five years?

25:23 - The most important technical issues when scaling Lightning

28:12 - Why have exchanges been slow at integrating Lightning?

31:10 - What the implementation of Taproot and Schnorr signatures means for the Lightning Network

34:39 - Blockstream Greenlight

38:44 - Questions from the Blockstream Talk community on Twitter

50:23 - Exciting prospects for Bitcoin´s future

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