In this week's episode we have two very special guests who participated at the Lightning Hackdays this past weekend. The Lightning Hackdays are an unconference focused on the Lightning Network organized by Fulmo from Berlin and this time they took place at the Cobac Co-Working space in Istanbul right next to the Golden Horn. There were around 150 participants from many different countries and great projects that led sessions. Participants couldn't really join all the sessions because there were quite a few running in parallel, so it's great to hear the experiences of Calle and Freerk.

Some projects discussed:

GTP-LN 

Raspiblitz

Bolt 12

Pubinno Lightning Beertap

Keynotes:

Carla-Kirk Cohen (Lightning Labs) - State of the Lightning Network

Nicolas Burtey (Galoy) - USD Over Lightning

Rene Pickhardt - Optimally reliable and cheap payment flows on the Lightning Network

You can watch the recorded Livestream of Friday's keynotes on Youtube

Bilal Göregen performance 

Find tweets releated to the Hackdays with #LightningHackdayIST

If you are interested in playing around with the Galoy API and USD over Lightning, you're welcome to join the Galoy Slack #hackathon !