In this episode, Alessandro Chacón, Backend Engineer at Crypto Broker AG, dives into one of bitcoin's second layer solutions called "liquid", which is developed by the blockchain technology company Blockstream.

Liquid is a sidechain-based settlement network for traders and exchanges, enabling faster, more confidential bitcoin transactions, and the issuance of digital assets. Today, there are already many well-known exchanges involved as "members" of the network.

Learn more about Liquid here: https://blockstream.com/liquid/

The episode was recorded in June 2019, so some of the quoted numbers were current at that time.