@Lyn Alden, macro analyst rejoins me on the show to talk about her new book, Broken Money. We discuss Lyn’s thoughts on: Ledger money and who controls it Different theories of money Speed of transaction vs settlement Warfare funding under fiat Base money and Broad money GFC and the response to it Fiat standard incentives What kind of debt makes sense under a Bitcoin standard
Stephan Livera
SLP518 Broken Money with Lyn Alden
In this podcast episode, Lyn Alden, a macro analyst, talks about her new book “Broken Money” and shares her ideas on different theories...
Robin Linus from the ZeroSync project joins me to talk about how ZKPs can be used to help people quickly get started using Bitcoin. We discuss: What ZKPs are and what they can be used for Speeding up IBD Contrasting ZeroSync with utreexo and assumeutxo UTXO set commitment Blockstream satellite What’s being verified? Different types of nodes
Stephan Livera
SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin IBD
Robin Linus from the ZeroSync project joins me to talk about how ZKPs can be used to help people quickly get started using Bitcoin by speeding up I...
Burak (Bitcoin researcher/developer) joins me to talk about Ark, a new protocol for Bitcoin scaling and privacy. We chat about: Downsides of LN High level overview ASPs, vTXOs Vapourware? Other criticisms Interactive vs non-interactive versions Covenants and what they’d mean for Bitcoin
Stephan Livera
SLP482 Burak – Ark: A new L2 protocol for Bitcoin
Ark is a new layer 2 protocol proposal for Bitcoin, listen in as Burak explains how it works and the various trade offs.