@WatchdogCapital

@brucefenton

Watchdog Capital

Chainstone Labs

1:02 - Meeting Bruce 

2:32 - What role does Bitcoin have in improving the future? 

8:24 - Is the current world environment is taylor made for Bitcoin?

11:36 - How did the Bitcoin narrative change over time? 

15:45 - Bitcoin transitioning to the medium of exchange 

17:50 - Bitcoin beating adoption expectations

18:27 - What are the opportunities for digital securities and STO's? 

25:36 - Is STO development being done within the United States? 

31:25 - What other assets are being tokenized? 

34:09 - What has been bottlenecking STO development? 

36:55 - Democratization of finance 

38:33 - Tokenizing low volume assets 

41:44 - Securities becoming globalized 

43:37 - Can securities be built upon Bitcoin? 

50:53 - Bitcoin being the most secure blockchain 

53:32 - Most interesting developments for Bitcoin in 2022?

56:47 - Where to find Bruce?

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@bitfinex

@paoloardoino

Bitfinex
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01:07 Who is Paulo Ardoino?

02:14  Path to finding Bitcoin and working at Bitfinex

13:24 Reasons Bitfinex does not face downtime during high volatility

15:17 Bitfinex being the most battle tested exchange

16:17 What is the Liquid Network value proposition compared to altcoins?

22:03 The origin story of Tether and its success

23:53 Difficulties of running an exchange

25:07 Will Bitcoin become less volatile thus destroying altcoins and stablecoins?

31:10 Why would first world countries not care for Tether and other stablecoins?

35:23 Bitfinex response to their 2016 hack

42:41 Opportunities for Bitfinex Securities

48:39 Why are there so few security token exchanges?

50:38 Other types of assets that are important to Bitfinex

54:57 Updates on the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond

58:31 When will the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond be available?

59:54 Most exciting Bitcoin developments for 2022

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Blockstream Research
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1:52 What is Blockstream researching?

4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?

15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?

21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?

28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?

32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?

34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?

39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?

48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?

54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?

59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?

1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?

1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption?

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@Blockstream

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Blockstream

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1:42 - What challenges do you have marketing products that are ahead of their time? 

8:32 - Do you think mainstream media is anti-Bitcoin? 

11:39 - What are the hardest parts of communicating Blockstream and Bitcoin to the public? 

15:03 - Has marketing for Bitcoin become easier overtime? 

15:54 - How do you see Bitcoin being used differently in other parts of the world? 

23:13 - What is the sentiment of Tether around the world? 

27:00 - Did your family ties to Argentina lead you down the Bitcoin rabbit hole? 

34:26 - Thoughts on the future of stablecoins? 

36:15 - Why is Liquid not more popular? 

41:17 - What are some Blockstream milestones to look forward to in 2022?

42:30 - What are you looking forward to in Bitcoin for 2022?

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@blksresearch

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Blockstream Research

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1:35 - Biggest innovations happening in Bitcoin right now

4:11 - How long does a BIP take to get implemented into the Bitcoin protocol?

5:54 - What are Bitcoin's core principles?

8:32 - What off chain capabilities need to be deployed for Taproot to be considered successful?

13:43 - Thoughts on the 2017 fork wars and why small blocks won out

17:37 - Threats to Bitcoin that were bigger than the fork wars

19:09 - Impressions of El Salvador after visiting

21:49 - Do El Salvador citizens use Bitcoin for savings or for payment processing?

22:22 - Sentiment of Bitcoin amongst El Salvador citizens

24:20 - Surprising learnings after visiting El Salvador

26:19 - PTLC's in Lightning and the significance of having it on a day to day basis

29:54 - MuSig

31:45 - Predictions for Bitcoin in 2022

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@AdamantResearch

@TuurDemeester

Adamant Research
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1:13 Meeting Tuur 

3:02 How the global financial crisis made Bitcoin interesting

5:30 Impressions of the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond

8:15 Details of the Bitcoin Bond in El Salvador

19:37 Path for emerging markets adopting Bitcoin  

26:45 What the world looks like if the Bitcoin Bond is oversubscribed

28:24 Other products that can be improved with Bitcoin

34:59 Thoughts on democratization of general investing

35:40 Products in the traditional markets interesting for Bitcoin to adopt

42:55 Are there still cycles in Bitcoin?

45:14 Thoughts on Bitcoin price action

51:15 Crackdown in China

54:45 What's exciting in Bitcoin for 2022

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@stokr_io

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Stokr

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1:11 - Meeting Arnab

2:05 - What is STOKR

3:51 - Current capital markets being outdated and what the future holds for them

7:35 - What is an STO and their difference between ICOs

11:22 - Liquid being a good way to issue STOs

13:00 - Privacy on Liquid being important

14:46 - Reasons for STOs becoming popular

16:56 - Benefits of tokenization

19:40 - Countries that are setting themselves up well with regulations

21:30 - U.S. being so hard to provide STO access to

23:06 - Large players getting interested in STOs

25:06 - Opportunities of STOs

29:44 - Bridging the old world to the new world

31:33 - Regulators views on STOs

35:20 - Thoughts on El Salvador bond

39:50 - Views on India adopting Bitcoin

42:42 - STOs in India

43:37 - Most exciting future developments in the Bitcoin world

46:17 - Where to find STOKR and Arnab

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@SpecterWallet

@MWietersheim

Specter Solutions
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2:20 Criticisms of the Liquid network

4:49 What is Hyperbitcoinization

6:24 Why would someone use the Liquid network

11:33 Views of Tether and other stable coins in Panama

14:49 Reasons to have stable coins on Liquid

16:09 Self custodian on Spectre

17:41 Using Spectre with Liquid assets

19:38 Hyperbitcoinization is ahead of schedule

22:09 What are the forces behind Hyperbitcoinization

25:29 Thoughts on people migrating to El Salvador

28:28 Thoughts on Bitcoin City

31:26 What is the El Salvador Volcano Bond and the overall sentiment of it

38:16 What is the most exciting thing in the world of Bitcoin going forward

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@BFXSecurities

@KnutsonJesse

Bitfinex Securities
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1:25 Jesse’s introduction

2:15 Jesse's journey from banker to bitcoin

4:32 Jesse trying to get banks to get involved in Bitcoin

10:50 What is BMN?

15:50 What is the future for BMN?

17:32 Paul Tudor Jones on investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoins network effects growing

20:39 Institutional investors taking a while to get into Bitcoin

21:55 Goals for Blockstream's acquisition of Adamant Capital

23:25 Macquarie's partnership with Blockstream

26:49 What is Blockstream markets newsletter

28:25 TA in bitcoin charts

30:48 What is Jesse most excited about for Bitcoin's future

32:10 Closing remarks

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@Core_LN

@Snyke

Core Lightning

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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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