On today’s show, we are joined by Paul Sztorc and Austin Alexander of Layer 2 Labs, a new Bitcoin company that raised $3 million to bring sidechains to the Bitcoin network.

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Paul Sztorci: https://twitter.com/Truthcoin

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:10 Intro

01:44 Who is Paul?

02:50 Who is Austin?

04:33 ETH & Zcash on drivechains

07:10 What is merge mining?

10:08 The history of sidechains

20:49 Liquid vs sidechains

26:18 Cultural pushback against drivechains

32:53 Other scaling ideas

36:45 The BIP process

42:16 Wrap up

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