Tadge Dryja and Lightning History and everything else - Episode 31

Tadge Dryja chats with us about writing the Lightning Network paper and working in the Bitcoin space. We discussed: Could blocks be bigger? (0:59) Paper: On the instability of Bitcoin without the block reward (9:49) Serving billions with Lightning (10:40) The state of the debate when writing the Lightning Network White Paper (13:35) Would Lightning be possible without Segwit? (17:20) Looking in from outside on a project you started (18:54) Trimmed HTLCs: Sending 1 sat vs 100,000 sats (22:02) Limitations of the Lightning network (25:31) Do high fees break lightning? (28:24) LN-Symmetry (Eltoo) (31:50) SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT (33:20) Why are soft forks so hard? (34:15) What’s your wish list ( hardfork wishlist wiki , softfork wishilist wiki ) for protocol changes? (36:18) coinpools Bitcoin needs to become more usable (37:54) Tadge's thoughts on Education (44:17) MAS.S62: Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design Dynamics of working on Bitcoin (47:16)

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Tadge Dryja and Lightning History and everything else - Episode 31 is an episode from The Chaincode Podcast by Chaincode Labs.

This episode is 00:57:19 long.

This episode was published on Mar 22, 2023.

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