The Chaincode Podcast

Tadge Dryja and Lightning History and everything else - Episode 31

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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)
                • ...more
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