Blockstream Talk

@Blockstream@LarryBitcoinBlockstream GreenBlockstream Jade00:23 Discovering Bitcoin02:38 Blockstream Wallet Offerings05:05 Wallet Features09:53 Lightning Integration10:45 Long Term Wallet Development11:50 Going Off-chain12:13 Jade and Other Hardware Wallets15:29 Wallet Security24:36 Secure Elements26:26 Self-custody best practices30:11 Custodian Stress Tests30:40 Exciting Bitcoin Developments 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@Blockstream@adam3usBlockstreamFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n00:55 - What happened in the Terra ecosystem? 08:05 - Crypto market cap is a misleading metric12:11 - UST failures effect on other stablecoins23:40 - Incentives within the DeFi space 26:30 - Could the Luna situation have ended differently?31:15 - Stablecoin velocity and resiliency36:09 - Liquidity and backing within stablecoins 41:21 - Bitcoin stigma in banking44:08 - Key lessons 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@btcturk@keremtibukBTC Turk1:30 - Meeting Kerem 3:50 - Is BtcTurk strictly for residents of Turkey? 5:38 - How big is the market in Turkey? 6:49 - What are the biggest hurdles to running an exchange? 11:42 - What is the biggest hassle of running an exchange in Turkey? 13:48 - Are there more transactions when turmoil breaks out in an area? 16:41 - Do people in Turkey view Bitcoin differently than Western countries? 19:12 - Is there a concern of capital controls in Turkey? 21:27 - What trends will exchanges see in 2022? 26:36 - Does Turkey see Bitcoin as a growth vector? 28:01 - Is Lightning useful for exchanges and traders? 29:58 - Central banking not liking Lightning as competition 31:30 - Are Bitcoin cycles over? 33:19 - Most exciting developments to look forward to for Bitcoin in 2022 34:45 - Where to find Kerem 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@WatchdogCapital@brucefentonWatchdog CapitalChainstone Labs1:02 - Meeting Bruce 2:32 - What role does Bitcoin have in improving the future? 8:24 - Is the current world environment is taylor made for Bitcoin?11:36 - How did the Bitcoin narrative change over time? 15:45 - Bitcoin transitioning to the medium of exchange 17:50 - Bitcoin beating adoption expectations18:27 - What are the opportunities for digital securities and STO's? 25:36 - Is STO development being done within the United States? 31:25 - What other assets are being tokenized? 34:09 - What has been bottlenecking STO development? 36:55 - Democratization of finance 38:33 - Tokenizing low volume assets 41:44 - Securities becoming globalized 43:37 - Can securities be built upon Bitcoin? 50:53 - Bitcoin being the most secure blockchain 53:32 - Most interesting developments for Bitcoin in 2022?56:47 - Where to find Bruce? 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@bitfinex@paoloardoinoBitfinexFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n01:07 Who is Paulo Ardoino?02:14 Path to finding Bitcoin and working at Bitfinex13:24 Reasons Bitfinex does not face downtime during high volatility15:17 Bitfinex being the most battle tested exchange16:17 What is the Liquid Network value proposition compared to altcoins?22:03 The origin story of Tether and its success23:53 Difficulties of running an exchange25:07 Will Bitcoin become less volatile thus destroying altcoins and stablecoins?31:10 Why would first world countries not care for Tether and other stablecoins?35:23 Bitfinex response to their 2016 hack42:41 Opportunities for Bitfinex Securities48:39 Why are there so few security token exchanges?50:38 Other types of assets that are important to Bitfinex54:57 Updates on the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond58:31 When will the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond be available?59:54 Most exciting Bitcoin developments for 2022 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

Blockstream ResearchFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:52 What is Blockstream researching?4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption? 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@Blockstream@basedlayerBlockstreamFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:42 - What challenges do you have marketing products that are ahead of their time? 8:32 - Do you think mainstream media is anti-Bitcoin? 11:39 - What are the hardest parts of communicating Blockstream and Bitcoin to the public? 15:03 - Has marketing for Bitcoin become easier overtime? 15:54 - How do you see Bitcoin being used differently in other parts of the world? 23:13 - What is the sentiment of Tether around the world? 27:00 - Did your family ties to Argentina lead you down the Bitcoin rabbit hole? 34:26 - Thoughts on the future of stablecoins? 36:15 - Why is Liquid not more popular? 41:17 - What are some Blockstream milestones to look forward to in 2022?42:30 - What are you looking forward to in Bitcoin for 2022? 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@blksresearch@n1cklerBlockstream ResearchFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:35 - Biggest innovations happening in Bitcoin right now4:11 - How long does a BIP take to get implemented into the Bitcoin protocol?5:54 - What are Bitcoin's core principles?8:32 - What off chain capabilities need to be deployed for Taproot to be considered successful?13:43 - Thoughts on the 2017 fork wars and why small blocks won out17:37 - Threats to Bitcoin that were bigger than the fork wars19:09 - Impressions of El Salvador after visiting21:49 - Do El Salvador citizens use Bitcoin for savings or for payment processing?22:22 - Sentiment of Bitcoin amongst El Salvador citizens24:20 - Surprising learnings after visiting El Salvador26:19 - PTLC's in Lightning and the significance of having it on a day to day basis29:54 - MuSig31:45 - Predictions for Bitcoin in 2022 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@AdamantResearch@TuurDemeesterAdamant ResearchFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:13 Meeting Tuur 3:02 How the global financial crisis made Bitcoin interesting5:30 Impressions of the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond8:15 Details of the Bitcoin Bond in El Salvador19:37 Path for emerging markets adopting Bitcoin 26:45 What the world looks like if the Bitcoin Bond is oversubscribed28:24 Other products that can be improved with Bitcoin34:59 Thoughts on democratization of general investing35:40 Products in the traditional markets interesting for Bitcoin to adopt42:55 Are there still cycles in Bitcoin?45:14 Thoughts on Bitcoin price action51:15 Crackdown in China54:45 What's exciting in Bitcoin for 2022 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@stokr_io@Arnab_NaskarrStokrFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:11 - Meeting Arnab2:05 - What is STOKR3:51 - Current capital markets being outdated and what the future holds for them7:35 - What is an STO and their difference between ICOs11:22 - Liquid being a good way to issue STOs13:00 - Privacy on Liquid being important14:46 - Reasons for STOs becoming popular16:56 - Benefits of tokenization19:40 - Countries that are setting themselves up well with regulations21:30 - U.S. being so hard to provide STO access to23:06 - Large players getting interested in STOs25:06 - Opportunities of STOs29:44 - Bridging the old world to the new world31:33 - Regulators views on STOs35:20 - Thoughts on El Salvador bond39:50 - Views on India adopting Bitcoin42:42 - STOs in India43:37 - Most exciting future developments in the Bitcoin world46:17 - Where to find STOKR and Arnab 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@SpecterWallet@MWietersheimSpecter SolutionsFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n2:20 Criticisms of the Liquid network4:49 What is Hyperbitcoinization6:24 Why would someone use the Liquid network11:33 Views of Tether and other stable coins in Panama14:49 Reasons to have stable coins on Liquid16:09 Self custodian on Spectre17:41 Using Spectre with Liquid assets19:38 Hyperbitcoinization is ahead of schedule22:09 What are the forces behind Hyperbitcoinization25:29 Thoughts on people migrating to El Salvador28:28 Thoughts on Bitcoin City31:26 What is the El Salvador Volcano Bond and the overall sentiment of it38:16 What is the most exciting thing in the world of Bitcoin going forward 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@BFXSecurities@KnutsonJesseBitfinex SecuritiesFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n1:25 Jesse’s introduction2:15 Jesse's journey from banker to bitcoin4:32 Jesse trying to get banks to get involved in Bitcoin10:50 What is BMN?15:50 What is the future for BMN?17:32 Paul Tudor Jones on investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoins network effects growing20:39 Institutional investors taking a while to get into Bitcoin21:55 Goals for Blockstream's acquisition of Adamant Capital23:25 Macquarie's partnership with Blockstream26:49 What is Blockstream markets newsletter28:25 TA in bitcoin charts30:48 What is Jesse most excited about for Bitcoin's future32:10 Closing remarks 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@Core_LN@SnykeCore LightningElements ProjectFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n2:27 - What is the Lightning Network, and what problems is it trying to solve?5:29 - Limitations of the Lightning Network7:22 - Existing protocols tackling the scaling problem9:54 - The blocksize war11:34 - How Lightning interacts with Liquid13:39 - Are the different Lightning implementations competing with each other?15:52 - How far are we in terms of user adoption?19:29 - The role of Lightning in Bitcoin´s ease of use23:34 - Where is the biggest potential growth for Lightning in the next five years?25:23 - The most important technical issues when scaling Lightning28:12 - Why have exchanges been slow at integrating Lightning?31:10 - What the implementation of Taproot and Schnorr signatures means for the Lightning Network34:39 - Blockstream Greenlight38:44 - Questions from the Blockstream Talk community on Twitter50:23 - Exciting prospects for Bitcoin´s future 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

Jan3Blockstream@JAN3com@ExcellionFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n2:17 What is going on in China? Is mining done for good? 3:10 Can Chinese investors still buy and sell Bitcoin? 4:46 How important is Chinese retail to Bitcoin price appreciation? 5:26 What was the motivation behind China’s latest crackdown? 7:06 Is the mining hardware supply chain at risk? 9:06 Where has Chinese hashrate migrated to? How long will it take to recover? 10:58 Security Tokens will drive the reformation of traditional capital markets 13:02 Trading venues, technology, and regulations are coming together for STOs 15:42 There seems to be a groundswell of interest in NFTs, how is Liquid being applied to NFTs? 18:50 Is El Salvador the first domino for dollarized economies? 20:58 Bitcoin is turning out to be a global growth driver 20:25 What is the state of the Lightning Network at the moment and what does it need to grow? 24:06 Within all the things that you’re involved in, what excites you the most? 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

@Blockstream@adam3usBlockstreamFollow Blockstream on Nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n01:20 Evolutionary History of Bitcoin and early attempts at creating electronic cash 11:38 What could have been Satoshi's thought process when designing Bitcoin 16:40 Bitcoin is not a prototype, it simply has a narrow pocket of design space 20:20 Bitcoin is not old technology, it is one of the most active open source projects in existence 22:22 Adam's early days in Bitcoin 31:44 What were the biggest threats for Bitcoin in the early days? What are potential threats going forward? 38:42 Proper ways to decentralize financial instruments using Bitcoin: Blockstream Mining Note 43:31 What is Bitcoin's value proposition? Bitcoin appeals to different people for different reasons 49:36 What are the most exciting things to look forward in the Bitcoin space? 📱 Download the Blockstream App🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream🧠 Follow Blockstream Research🌊 Explore the Liquid Network⚡️ Build on Core Lightning  

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Blockstream Talk, a new podcast that will provide a glimpse into all the cutting edge Bitcoin products and technologies being developed at Blockstream. The goal of this podcast is to introduce very interesting people and their projects in a format that is accesible to everyone regardless of your background. 📱 Download the Blockstream App 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet 🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream 🧠 Follow Blockstream Research 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network ⚡️ Build on Core Lightning