Podcasts: KDC #38: Adam Back (PhD) - The Bitcoin Rabbit Hole & Lightning Network. 🔗 5 years ago
- Category: Podcasts | The Keyvan Davani Connection
- Author(s): Keyvan Davani
- Published: 21st October 2019 23:15
During the Lightning Conference 2019 in Berlin, I had the pleasure to sit down with Adam Back (cyberpunk, cryptographer, PhD in computer science, CEO/Co-Founder of Blockstream etc.) for an interview.
Adam´s works (Hashcash used in Bitcoin Mining) is cited in the White Paper of Satoshi Nakomoto.
Our fascinating talk deep down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole covers a spectrum of questions and topics:
- Lightning: Purpose / Vision/ Challenges / Scalability / Privacy / Security / On&Off Chain
- Finalization of Payment
- Future Developments: Layer 1 & 2; Interoperability / Splice-In / Channels
- UX / UI / By Default Functions&Features/ "All in One"?/ New Wallets
- Coinjoin&Wasabi / Samourai&Whirlpool
- Different Trade-Offs: Convenience, Privacy, Security etc.
- Liquid-Chain / Encryption / Block Explorer
- IPs/ Tor / VPN
- Education / Self-Responsibility
- Critical Mass-Adoption
- Multi-Signatures / 2FA
- Safe Recovery-Key / User-Control
- The Bigger Picture
- Bail-In / Negative Rates / Recession / Crash
- Keynesianism / Modern Monetary Theory / (Hyper-) Inflation
- Investment-Allocation of Bitcoin / Gold / Volatility / Stability / Adoption-Curve
- FOMO / Mass-Psychology / Stock-to-Flow-Ratio / (Absolute) Scarcity
- Digital Gold Asset
- Adoption Saturation
- Permissionless / Self-Sovereignty / Censorship-Resistance / Privacy
- Predecessors of Bitcoin / Failures / Centralization
- Satoshi Nakomoto´s Vision and Ethos
- Human Civilization / Evolution / Technological "Zero-to-One" Innovations
- Hard & Sound Money / Bitcoin: The New Gold-Standard
- Limitations of Gold
- Bank Runs
- Fractional Reserve Banking & Money
- Humanity Not Understanding Money
- Low Time Preference & Saving
- True Potential & Essence of Bitcoin for Humanity
- "The Bitcoin Rabbit Hole"
- Improving the Quality of Life for Billions of People with Bitcoin
- Beautiful Vision: Evolution.
Follow Adam Back on twitter: @adam3us
Website: cypherspace.org/adam/
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Keyvan
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