Podcasts: TLS66: Danny Diekroeger on Cash App, LDK, and Operating the Deezy LN Node 🔗 2 years ago

Danny Diekroeger is a Bitcoin software engineer at Cash App, and the operator of one of the world’s largest Lightning nodes.

In our conversation, Danny explained how Cash App thinks about building Bitcoin and Lightning features, and the challenges of operating a Bitcoin business at scale. we also discussed Spiral’s Lightning Development Kit and Danny’s strategy for becoming a top Lightning node operator.

→ Deezy Node: https://deezy.io/

→ Danny Diekroeger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dannydiekroeger

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:19 - Danny Diekroeger Intro

07:55 - Why Cash App Integrated Lightning

13:41 - Lightning Adoption at Cash App