Patrick Chovanec, Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management Group and former business professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, breaks down the economic implications of 1 USD now being worth more than 7 Yuan. 

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https://twitter.com/prchovanec

http://www.silvercrestgroup.com/uploads/viewFile/5a53fc0d-c3b0-4c00-a1d3-1d29c0a864b9/Economic%20Review%20Q1_18%20%28with%20Forecast%20Table%29.pdf

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Jacob Gadikian from Drone Energy chats to talk about leveraging wasted energy for mining, whether mining is wasteful, and potential market effects of the Litecoin halvening.

 

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https://twitter.com/gadikian

https://droneenergy.com/

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https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler

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Lisa Neigut goes in depth into her talk about the Taxonomy of Lightning Nodes that she gave at the Magical Crypto Conference.  We also touch on Trampoline Payments on the Lightning Network and how that'll help light weight lightning nodes.

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Kenichi Kurimoto from Nayuta shares about launching a new Lightning Network client that is tailor made for Internet of Things devices and why he believes the Lightning Network and IoT is a perfect fit.

*Transcript*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijZhot4vxSlEwvyUDGVHh-fhBG-XP3bSkTA99x7a9PE/edit?usp=sharing

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https://nayuta.co/lp/ptarmigan.html

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https://twitter.com/Nayuta_en
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https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler

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Britt Kelly shares about some of the challenges that come with contributing to open source projects and how to overcome them.  She also updates us on the newest updates with BTCPay including fiat sweeps integration and BTCPay Merchant Association.

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Carla chats about the cool Bolt-A-Thon project she submitted called "Lightning Poll" and also talks about beta testing Lightning at Luno, a South African exchange.

*Links*

https://medium.com/@kirkcohenc/hacking-hodl-invoices-at-bothathon-2019-7c540ccfa1ee
https://www.luno.com/en/exchange

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https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC

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Valentine Wallace joins me to talk about some of the UX challenges of developing a mobile Lightning wallet, how Bos scores help with routing, and how Static Channel Backups work. 

*Links*

https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-app/releases
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2313 (SCB)
https://medium.com/@leegordon/the-story-of-lightning-purple-691c2c490bdd

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https://twitter.com/vallywal

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https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler

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Chris Blecher goes in depth into how the metadata of users can be exposed through wallet software and the unreliability of transaction surveillance tools.  

*Links*

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy

https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver

https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server

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Allen Piscitello breaks down how Liquid Bitcoin works including the Federation, Confidential Transactions, and Confidential Assets.  We also briefly touch on the Lightning Network and hardware wallets towards the end.  

 

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https://twitter.com/Blockstream
https://github.com/Blockstream/liquid

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https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler

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Joost Jager from Lightning Labs talks about his pull request called "Hold Invoices" and the different types of use cases it enables as well as Lightning Network routing.  

*Guest*
https://twitter.com/joostjgr
https://twitter.com/lightning

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https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler

*Show Notes*
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/checklocktimeverify-or-how-a-time-lock-patch-will-boost-bitcoin-s-potential-1446658530/
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Timelock
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2022

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