Podcasts: SLP123 Allen Piscitello - Sidechains & Blockstream Liquid 🔗 4 years ago
- Category: Podcasts | Stephan Livera Podcast
- Author(s): Stephan Livera
- Published: 8th November 2019 11:36
Allen Piscitello, VP Product of Blockstream joins me to talk about Blockstream Liquid as a new model for inter exchange settlement, and the possibility of building out new financial infrastructure in a way different from the legacy financial system. We talk:
- Tradeoffs and differences between approaches of Lightning, Statechains, and Liquid
- How pegging Bitcoin in and out of Liquid works
- Features that Liquid’s blockchain has e.g. Confidential Transactions and Confidential Assets
- How Liquid can enable much faster inter exchange settlement with different tradeoffs
- How to get started developing on it
- What the future of bitcoin market structure could look like with Liquid adoption
Allen and Blockstream Links:
Sponsor links:
- Kraken
- Unchained Capital
- CypherWheel by CypherSafe
- GiveBitcoin
Stephan Livera links:
