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| Wall Street’s Bitcoin Awakening with Anthony Scaramucci - Bitcoin Capital #17 | 02 Jul 2025 | 00:43:25 | |
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| From Gold to Bitcoin with VanEck’s Matthew Sigel – Bitcoin Capital #16 | 18 Jun 2025 | 00:47:32 | |
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| Bitcoin's Institutional Surge: ETFs, MSTR, and 2025 Predictions with Fred Krueger - Bitcoin Capital #8: | 22 Dec 2024 | 01:26:01 | |
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| Navigating Real-World Asset Tokenization with the Blockstream Mining Note #7 | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:38:44 | |
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| Money, Technology, and Capital Markets - Bitcoin Capital #6: | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:59:10 | |
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| The State of Digital Asset Adoption in Europe - Bitcoin Capital #5 | 02 Sep 2024 | 01:09:55 | |
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| Bitcoin Beyond Finance: Transforming Global Industries - Bitcoin Capital #4 | 26 Aug 2024 | 01:06:05 | |
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| The Frontline of Tokenized Finance: Insights from Issuers - Bitcoin Capital #3 | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:50:55 | |
Learn about the global investment opportunities unlocked by the HSVIL token for financing the new Hampton by Hilton at San Salvador Airport with Michelle Matioda, Director at Mikro Capital and Roberto Laguardia, CEO of Inverlag. Investment details:
🌊 Aim to raise $6.25M
🎟️ 10% coupon over 5 years
✋ Minimum investment of $1,000
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| Transforming Untapped Global Assets into Usable Capital - Bitcoin Capital #2 | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:52:20 | |
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| Tokenized Securites with Adam Back and Paolo Ardoino - Bitcoin Capital #1 | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:57:05 | |
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| Relai's Non-Custodial Lightning Integration with Greenlight - Blockstream Talk #40 - Adem Bilican | 02 May 2024 | 00:27:07 | |
Follow Relai 02:19 Getting started in Bitcoin 04:22 Buying and selling Bitcoin on Relai 05:42 The benefits of a non-custodial architecture 07:54 Integrating non-custodial Lightning wallets in Relai 09:20 Partnering with Greenlight by Blockstream 10:45 Why Relai chose to integrate with Greenlight 12:56 Improving the user experience on Lightning 14:32 Greenlight integration process 17:17 Lightning adoption activity on Relai 21:10 Overcoming the challenges of integrating Lightning 23:40 Advice for enterprizes looking to integrate Lightning 25:08 What’s next for Relai? 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Streamlining Bitcoin Layer-2 Payments Using Liquid and Lightning On Aqua Wallet - Blockstream Talk #39 | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:54:50 | |
Follow JAN3 🌎 Learn more about JAN3 02:31 What makes Aqua wallet different? 07:50 Tether's role in Bitcoin onboarding 10:58 Lightning payments in the Aqua wallet 21:42 Advantages of Tether on the Liquid Network 28:30 Jan3 Financial 42:04 Jan3 and Botev Plovdiv FC 49:12 Aqua wallet and BTCMap 51:21 Aqua wallet roadmap 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin in Pension Funds: Institutional Adoption with Sam Roberts - Bitcoin Capital #15 | 07 May 2025 | 01:00:31 | |
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| Beating the Bitcoin Blockchain Trilemma with Layer-2s - Blockstream Talk #38 with Byron Hambly | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:24:44 | |
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02:53 Bitcoin circular economies in Africa 06:19 Fairer Bitcoin for the global south 07:36 Trade-offs between Lightning, Liquid and Fedimint 09:27 The blockchain trilemma 10:25 Interoperability between Lightning and Liquid 12:54 Understanding the Liquid Federation 16:43 Covenants on the Liquid Network 20:19 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network 21:45 Blockstream Asset Management Platform (AMP) 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Developing Bitcoin Commerce with Layer-2s and Vulpem Ventures featuring Marco Argentieri - Blockstream Talk #37 | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:32:22 | |
Follow Marco 🧑💻 Learn more about Vulpem Ventures 02:09 The power of the Bitcoin Italia community 03:14 The goals of Vulpem Ventures 05:42 Building Bitcoin layer-2 tooling 08:08 Reasons for building on the Liquid Network 09:39 Common Liquid misconceptions 12:55 Using layer-2s to stack bitcoin 14:26 Bitcoin layer-1 scaling conversations 15:51 Sharing UTXOs utilizing covenants 17:26 The evolving narratives of Bitcoin 18:45 Bitcoin volatility’s effect on use cases 21:06 The effect of higher L1 fees 23:29 The difference between Elements and Liquid 24:38 Atomic swaps with Banco by Vulpem 28:07 Getting started in Bitcoin development 31:36 Bitcoin in 2024 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Driving Global Adoption Using Bitcoin Layer-2s: Lightning and Liquid with Samson Mow - Blockstream Talk #36 | 23 Jan 2024 | 00:50:25 | |
Follow Samson 🌊 Learn more about the Liquid Network 02:14 Introducing Samson Mow and JAN3 04:35 JAN3 approach to nation state orange pilling 08:44 Most receptive regions for nation state Bitcoin adoption 15:27 Bitcoin mining and nation state adoption 20:25 Geographical arbitrage and collectivism 24:32 AQUA wallet and Liquid BTC adoption 26:12 Key features of the AQUA wallet 30:33 Liquid based Tether (USDt) 32:25 Liquid FUD and Liquid derangement syndrome 35:49 Liquid and Lightning interoperability 38:22 Bitcoin layer-2 innovations 42:15 Bitcoin ETFs “Wild BTC vs Zoo BTC” 48:15 2024 and beyond for Bitcoin and JAN3 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Advancing Bitcoin Education using Base58 and Bitcoin++ with Lisa Neigut - Blockstream Talk #35 | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:44:44 | |
🎓 Visit the Base58 website 02:13 Starting work on the Lightning Network 03:34 Differentiated features of Core Lightning 06:24 Working on “Lightning v2” 08:13 Greenlight: Lightning node as a service 11:53 The benefits of non-custodial architecture 12:41 Starting work on open-source projects 13:57 Recruitment for open-source projects 15:14 Marketing Bitcoin development opportunities 20:29 Lightning FUD 22:22 BTC Plus Plus developer conference 26:53 Base58: A Bitcoin protocol school 29:04 Boltz.Exchange: Liquid and Lightning swaps 32:6 New Bitcoin layer-2 protocols 34:40 Opcodes explained 37:32 Lightning Network mainstream adoption 43:46 BTC Plus Plus and Base58 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Greenlight: Transforming Non-Custodial Lightning Access with Christian Decker - Blockstream Talk #34 | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:45:06 | |
Follow Greenlight 🧑💻 Open the Greenlight console 📰 Learn more about Greenlight 02:32 The history of Core Lightning 05:41 Spec driven philosophy of Core Lightning 08:38 Open-source development process of Core Lightning 10:00 Core Lightning’s use of plugins 13:06 Powering Greenlight with Core Lightning 18:58 Improving non-custodial access to Lightning with Greenlight 24:19 Developer and business onboarding to Greenlight 28:03 Greenlight: Non-custodial Lightning-as-a-Service 30:42 Interoperability of Bitcoin layer-2s Lightning and Liquid 33:40 Core Lightning and Greenlight look ahead 35:23 Core Lightning v23.11 “Bitcoin orangepaper” 42:47 Starting out building on Core Lightning 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Expanding Bitcoin's Global Reach Using Lightning with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #33 | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:47:23 | |
Follow Rusty on X.com Follow Jesse on X.com 👨💻 Open an issue in the Core Lightning GitHub 👋 Ask devs a question in the Discord 🧾 Core Lightning Documentation Portal ⚡️ Open the Greenlight developer console 02:15 Developing Lightning implementations from spec 10:10 Lightning Network global adoption 11:42 Integrating Lightning on Blockstream Green 14:02 Lightning payments with Miss Universe El Salvador 15:48 Development of new Lightning use cases 17:14 Enabling wumbo payments on Lightning 18:54 Custodial vs non-custodial 21:58 ETF vs self-custody not your keys not your coins 23:36 The importance of taking self-custody 26:40 Optimising Lightning around mainchain fees 31:20 Use cases for Greenlight by Blockstream 33:28 Using Lighting payments in GameFi 34:31 The Phoenix wallet by ASINQ 36:06 Liquid and Lightning layer-2 interoperability 37:15 Splicing and dual funding 40:27 Core Lightning v23.11 42:16 Starting development with Core Lightning 43:02 Sats vs Bits 43:56 Improving privacy on Lightning 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| BTCPay Server: Optimizing Merchant Bitcoin Adoption - Blockstream Talk #32 | 11 Oct 2023 | 00:32:22 | |
@BtcpayServer Follow Blockstream on Nostr: npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n 🧑🔧 Explore BTCPayserver 🇱🇻 See the Baltic Honeybadger case study 02:00 Introduction to BTCPay Server 02:43 BTCPay Server and Baltic Honeybadger 04:26 Utilizing SideShift and Prism plugins on BTCPay Server 09:53 How merchants deal with Bitcoin volatility 13:35 Scaling Lightning payments custodial vs non-custodial 20:55 Onboarding merchants to Bitcoin with BTCPay Server 23:46 Bitcoin POS systems used at Baltic Honeybadger 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| HodlHodl, Debifi and Baltic Honeybadger with Max Keidun - Blockstream Talk #31 | 27 Sep 2023 | 00:49:50 | |
@HodlHodl 🇱🇻 Learn more about Baltic Honeybadger 🤝 Try out non-custodial p2p Bitcoin trading with Hodl Hodl 02:40 Bitcoin conferences around the world 06:22 introduction to HODL HODL & Debifi 13:06 Non-custodial operations with multisig 16:02 Institutional interest in peer-to-peer markets 21:36 Starting up Baltic Honeybadger 30:55 Baltic Honeybadger 2023 announcements 34:32 Debifi API availability for institutional investors 35:51 Different use cases for Lightning & Liquid 38:46 HODL HODL and the Liquid Federation 40:47 Using Tether on the Liquid Network 41:38 Supported currencies on HODL HODL & Debifi 44:46 Different global use cases for Bitcoin 47:50 Find out more about Debifi & HODL HODL 48:46 The next 12 months in Bitcoin development 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Open-source Lightning Innovation with Ken Sedgwick from VLS - Blockstream Talk # 30 | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:30:11 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: ⚡️ Explore the VLS project 🚦 Learn more about Greenlight here 02:00 What’s difficult about running a Lightning node? 06:42 Motivation for developing VLS 08:37 VLS basic security model 10:20 VLS hardware signing devices 11:17 VLS release status 13:46 VLS disaster recovery charter 17:15 VLS integration with Greenlight 18:34 UTXO set oracles 22:02 VLS validation rules 24:02 What’s next for VLS 25:17 Using multisignature with VLS 28:22 How to contribute to the VLS open-source project 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Codex32 and Paper Computers with Andrew Poelstra - Blockstream Talk #29 | 30 Aug 2023 | 01:40:38 | |
@KnutsonJesse 🏪 Get a copy of Codex32 in the Blockstream Store 🥼 Visit the Blockstream Research website 📚 See the archive of Blockstream Research's cutting edge work 1:28 Introduction to Blockstream Research 14:04 The Codex32 paper computer 20:51 What is Shamir’s Secret Sharing? 27:21 How Jade protects key information 34:47 Implementing Miniscript in Blockstream Jade 38:31 Wen Simplicity on Liquid ser? 48:45 Formal verification with Simplicity 53:31 Using Simplicity for CTV & APO functionality 59:35 How drivechains differ from other layer-2s 1:10:39 FROST and MuSig2 1:16:53 Blockstream Satellite and zero-knowledge proofs 1:22:13 Blockstream Research’s work on bulletproofs ++ 1:35:52 The next 12-18 months in Bitcoin development 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| To the Moon – How Space-Tech Pioneer KULR Is Betting on Bitcoin with Michael Mo - Bitcoin Capital #14 | 01 May 2025 | 00:36:18 | |
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| Low-Time Preference Bitcoin Infrastructure & Development with Erik Svenson - Blockstream talk #28 | 18 Aug 2023 | 00:49:56 | |
@Liquid_BTC 🌊 Find out more about the Liquid Network ⛏️ Learn about the Blockstream Mining Note 02:10 Erik’s path to Bitcoin 03:38 How Mt. Gox influenced Blockstream 06:26 Surviving multiple market cycles 23:29 Asset issuance on Liquid 28:29 Blockstream Mining Note 32:33 Crossover between Bitcoin & tradfi 35:15 Institutional interest in integrating Liquid 38:50 Working with Dr. Adam Back 42:10 Bitcoin adoption inflection points 44:41 Bitcoin usage in different markets 46:42 What’s next for Blockstream? 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Unlocking Bitcoin's Potential with Layer-2 featuring Jeff Boortz - Blockstream Talk #27 | 15 Aug 2023 | 00:38:25 | |
Learn more about Blockstream 🌊⚡️ Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 02:00 Jeff’s role at Blockstream 03:00 Bitcoin layer-2 synergies 04:05 Lightning & Liquid’s effect on Bitcoin adoption 11:00 Greenlight 12:39 Integrating Lightning in Blockstream Green 14:11 Use cases developing on Liquid 18:00 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network 20:24 The Blockstream Jade Bitcoin hardware wallet 23:00 Non-custodial trading of Liquid assets on Jade 24:15 Control & privacy benefits of decentralized technology 30:34 Institutional interest in the Liquid Network 33:29 Up & coming Blockstream projects 35:50 Timeline on Simplicity integration into Liquid 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Simplicity, Bitcoin's Last soft Fork? with Christian Lewe - Blockstream Talk #26 | 01 Aug 2023 | 00:52:09 | |
🏃♂️ Try out Simplicity Playground by Burak 🔊 Join the SImplicity discussion on GitHub 3:26 Blockstream Research mission & structure 04:53 So simple it fits on a T-Shirt 09:30 Bitcoin’s last soft fork? 15:56 SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY 23:59Applications of Simplicity 2:40 Risks & rewards of merging Simplicity to Bitcoin L1 29:25 Fee market implications of merging Simplicity 33:36 The process of implementing SImplicity on Bitcoin 39:25 Criticisms of Simplicity 44:51 Relationship between Miniscript & Simplicity 49:47 Simplicity resources 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Greenlight Fixes This ⚡️ with Adi Shankara | 03 Jul 2023 | 00:27:09 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 🏗 Learn why even hardcore Bitcoin & Lightning developers should build on Greenlight 🎙 Learn more about Greenlight with Roy Shienfield & Christian Decker on the Stephan Livera Podcast 01:02 Who is Adi? 01:46 What is Greenlight? 02:50 Challenges of running a Lightning node 06:54 Status of Greenlight developer preview 09:26 Regulations and compliance 11:29 Building apps on Greenlight 13:58 Benefits of Lightning 15:03 Lightning Network adoption 15:52 The security of Greenlight 17:31 Cost effectiveness of running a node 18:50 Routing nodes vs edge nodes 19:42 Greenlight’s approach to privacy 20:54 Lightning node backups with Greenlight 22:00 Facilitating user off boarding to own infrastructure 22:42 No walled gardens 23:13 Liquid Integrations 23:43 Summer of Bitcoin 25:18 Adding Greenlight to Lightning devs tooling 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| liquid.boltz.exchange | 14 Jun 2023 | 00:39:19 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 🔩 Check out Boltz a privacy first, non-custodial Bitcoin exchange 00:45 What does Boltz do? 02:26 Using Liquid swaps 04:20 Why build on Liquid? 05:37 Challenges during implementation 07:42 Other channel rebalancing solutions 11:40 The swap process between Liquid and Lightning 15:34 What level of trust does Boltz require? 18:02 Lightning Network capacity 20:57 Bitcoin layer-2s supporting each other 22:05 Lightning Network transaction sizes 25:12 Lightning Network adoption 31:25 Optimizing Boltz 33:25 The Boltz API 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| La Capa Financiera de Bitcoin con Adolfo Contreras - Blockstream Talk #24 | 31 May 2023 | 00:58:21 | |
@basedlayer 1:58 Las aplicaciones de blockchain en los mercados financieros 5:48 Los beneficios de usar estas tecnologías en los mercados financieros, tanto para los participantes del mercado como para los consumidores 15:06 Los desafíos principales que enfrenta la adopción de blockchain en los mercados financieros y cómo se pueden superar 21:10 ¿Qué es Elements y cuáles son sus principales características? 26:31 UTXO vs. Modelo de Cuentas 34: 09 ¿Qué es el Liquid Network y cómo funciona? 37:49 ¿Qué es el “shadow banking”? 40:27: La industria de los pagarés y sus principales desafíos 49:01 Otras industrias que tienen similares desafíos y una gran razón para digitalizarse de la misma manera que los pagarés? 51:36 Mineros de Bitcoin digitalizando sus acuerdos de compra de energía por parte de mineros 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Green The All-In-One Bitcoin Wallet with Alessandro Saglimbeni | 15 May 2023 | 00:47:45 | |
@KnutsonJesse 📱 Download the Blockstream Green Bitcoin wallet 🛩 Try out the Blockstream Green Testflight 01:14 Lessons from the Green Beta testing 07:46 Mnemonic interchangeability 12:50 Blockstream Green for beginners 16:47 A Bitcoin wallet’s core services 24:03 Blockstream Jade as a Bitcoin Miner 26:48 Blockstream Green’s pin unlock service 29:22 Secure elements 35:00 Open-source software & DIY 35:50 Liquid integration with Green 37:22 Watch only wallets 39:37 Greenlight 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Atomic Swaps, Decentralized Finance, and Digital Securities with SideSwap - Blockstream Talk #23 | 04 May 2023 | 00:43:36 | |
@Blockstream 🌊 Start building on Bitcoin's financial layer with the Build On L2 Liquid community 2:14 Why build on Bitcoin? 3:32 Colored Coins protocol 5:32 How Atomic Swaps work 8:00 The spectrum of decentralized finance 8:52 What SideSwap is focused on 12:14 Lessons from previous Bitcoin cycles 12:57 The importance of Bitcoin based capital markets 17:26 Issuing securities as bearer assets 19:35 The tokenization of securities 20:37 Transfer restricted asset technology 25:12 Differences between CEX & DEX 26:19 Private swaps on SideSwap 27:22 What does PEGx do? 31:46 Voting with Liquid digital securities 35:48 Dealing with regulators when facilitating trades 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| ZeroSync & Blockstream Satellite - Blockstream Talk #22 | 18 Apr 2023 | 00:30:00 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 🛰 Learn more about the Blockstream Satellite 2:39 Zero knowledge proofs 5:36 What makes ZeroSync different? 6:43 ZeroSync and Blockstream Satellite 8:37 Benefits of ZKPs 9:47 Development timeline 11:34 Hardware requirements 13:12 Use cases for the ZeroSync toolkit 15:39 Stark proofs, Simplicity & the Liquid Network 20:04 Security of ZeroSync proof systems 23:45 Long term implications of ZKPs for Bitcoin 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Making Bitcoin Self-Custody Easy with Rich Grambergs - Blockstream Talk #21 | 29 Mar 2023 | 00:37:09 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 01:51 Major developments in the self-custody landscape 03:41 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving 08:55 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving 12:35 Other Bitcoin wallets that Jade works with 13:37 The Blockstream Jade reseller program 15:21 Blockstream Jade blind pin server 19:05 Other assets that Jade supports 20:50 The next 12 months in Jade development 22:53 Lightning integration in Blockstream Jade 23:50 Blockstream Green UX development 25:00 The Bitcoin hardware wallet market 26:23 Tradeoffs between singlesig & multisig 28:30 Common difficulties in bitcoin self-custody 29:55 Demonstrating Jade at Bitcoin Park 32:40 Common questions for Blockstream Support 34:42 How the Jade DIY process works 36:22 2023 look ahead for Blockstream Jade 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin's Expanding Influence in Global Finance with Nik Bhatia - Bitcoin Capital #13 | 14 Apr 2025 | 01:01:19 | |
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| Promissory Notes on Liquid with Tomás Alvarez - Blockstream Talk #20 | 10 Mar 2023 | 00:44:53 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 0:00 Introduction 01:05 The fundamental problem Mifiel is trying to solve 01:38 What is a promissory note and what kind of people are using 04:27 Other markets that utilize promissory notes 06:13 Dealing with challenges in technology adoption 07:57 Utilizing the Liquid Network for tokenization 9:52 Dealing with regulations and licensing considerations 11:17 Secondary market trading of promissory notes 16:02 Decentralization and promissory notes 19:53 Quantity of promissory notes issued by Mifiel 20:43 Interest rates on promissory notes 23:24 Demand for promissory notes 25:03 Handling defaults on promissory notes 26:47 Reasons for issuing on the Liquid Network 32:52 Short term outlook for Mifiel 37:09 Benefits of tokenization 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Digital Securities Future with Kyle Fry - Blockstream Talk #19 | 06 Jan 2023 | 00:57:47 | |
Follow Blockstream on Nostr: 03:25 What makes MERJ unique 07:35 Different reasons for offshoring business 11:25 The Blockstream Mining Note and US markets 12:43 Security tokens & digital securities 24:16 Evolution of capital markets 34:35 How STOs can improve markets 43:19 Building on the Liquid Network 48:37 Risks and regulations after FTX crash 52:31 Future outlook for asset issuers 54:58 The STO industry in 10 years 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Lightning Signal with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #18 | 29 Nov 2022 | 00:55:37 | |
Elements Project 01:27 Starting work on Lightning at Blockstream 03:44 Lightning Network global adoption 04:46 Work on Bolt12 Lightning spec 10:41 Factors driving Lightning adoption 15:15 Bookkeeping with Core Lightning 21:31 Lightning Network unlocking micropayments 23:45 Integrating Lightning into Blockstream Green 26:02 Lightning wallet recommendations 28:48 Thoughts on El Salvador Bitcoin and Lightning adoption 32:55 Working in the open-source software space 38:43 Comparing Bitcoin to Linux 47:33 Exciting things coming to Lightning 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| FTX Lessons with Dr Adam Back - Blockstream Talk #17 | 15 Nov 2022 | 01:41:45 | |
00:43 FTX failure overview 04:45 Bankruptcy vs recovery token 09:55 FTX post mortem 33:43 Exchange revenue rights model 39:05 Proof of keys day 52:14 Lessons for investors from FTX insolvency 59:16 The future of DeFi 1:20:48 Asset issuance on the Liquid Network 1:25:02 Bitcoin mining market conditions 1:29:15 Crypto bailout pool 1:32:47 Looking ahead on the Bitcoin network 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin's Financial Layer with Matthew Haywood - Blockstream Talk #16 | 06 Oct 2022 | 00:44:46 | |
03:06 Path to Bitcoin 05:56 The Liquid Network 07:22 Other assets and AMP management 09:06 What is the Liquid Federation? 13:56 Governance within the Federation 16:17 L-BTC Peg in growth 18:03 L-BTC as the native token 20:15 L-USDt transaction volume 22:54 Different layer-2 use cases 25:44 Liquid documentation for institutions 26:58 Asset management platform 33:24 Threshold for Tokenisation 36:22 The new Asset Management Tool 42:10 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network 43:57 What’s next for the Blockstream Asset Management Platform 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin Venture Investing with Alyse Killeen - Blockstream Talk #15 | 31 Aug 2022 | 00:48:30 | |
04:05 Health of the VC industry 06:49 Pitching Bitcoin to investors 09:08 Differentiating Crypto and Bitcoin VC 12:10 Narrative investing within Crypto tokens 28:18 Capital allocation framworks 32:55 The future of security tokens 36:14 Bitcoin's importance globally 39:41 Most exciting work within Bitcoin 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Roadmap for Blockstream's ASIC Bitcoin Miner with Assaf Gilboa - Blockstream Talk #14 | 03 Aug 2022 | 00:57:47 | |
05:29 Boom or bust in Bitcoin mining 07:22 What makes Spondoolies different? 09:20 Making ASIC parts easily replaceable 10:46 Blockstream and Spondoolies synergies 13:07 Optimizing Blockstream's Bitcoin mining 13:52 Air cooled and immersion mining 16:00 Institutional investment entering Bitcoin mining 18:17 Road map for Blockstream's upcoming ASIC machine 20:55 Centralization of chip foundry services 25:32 Essential advanced manufacturing processes 28:17 Foundry services planning rigidity 30:02 Difficulties in securing chip allocations 31:00 Bitcoin miners foundry requirements 32:14 Current selling pressure on miners 34:19 ASIC acquisition industry dynamics 39:24 ASIC price change implications 41:34 Mining industry consolidation during the bear market 43:33 Hashrate is looking for stability 46:43 Modelling Bitcoin hashrate and price 49:11 Why more manufacturers aren't in Bitcoin 53:00 Bitcoin mining in 5 years 58:39 The upcoming Blockstream ASIC 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Federated Security Models and E-Cash Built on Bitcoin With Eric Sirion | 21 Jul 2022 | 00:29:02 | |
00:20 Personal privacy 00:58 Eric’s background 01:53 Freedom = privacy 03:41 Why work on Bitcoin? 05:07 Chaumian mints, ecash, Federations 08:43 Federated ecash 11:25 Federations in the future 12:57 Integrating Lightning into federations 16:20 Tokens 17:22 Lightning custodial usage 18:17 Minimint_btc 21:11 Bitcoin usage in El Salvador 23:16 Choosing a federated ecash 26:44 Exciting things moving forward 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin Wallet Technology & Self-Custody Best Practices with Lawrence Nahum | 01 Jul 2022 | 00:31:42 | |
00:23 Discovering Bitcoin 02:38 Blockstream Wallet Offerings 05:05 Wallet Features 09:53 Lightning Integration 10:45 Long Term Wallet Development 11:50 Going Off-chain 12:13 Jade and Other Hardware Wallets 15:29 Wallet Security 24:36 Secure Elements 26:26 Self-custody best practices 30:11 Custodian Stress Tests 30:40 Exciting Bitcoin Developments 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Luna Lessons with Dr. Adam Back - Blockstream Talk #13 | 17 May 2022 | 00:48:17 | |
Blockstream 00:55 - What happened in the Terra ecosystem? 08:05 - Crypto market cap is a misleading metric 12:11 - UST failures effect on other stablecoins 23:40 - Incentives within the DeFi space 26:30 - Could the Luna situation have ended differently? 31:15 - Stablecoin velocity and resiliency 36:09 - Liquidity and backing within stablecoins 41:21 - Bitcoin stigma in banking 44:08 - Key lessons 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| The State of Bitcoin in Brazil: From Payments to Tokenization with Rocelo Lopes - Bitcoin Capital #12 | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:55:32 | |
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| Turkish Lira Inflation & the Bitcoin Exchange Business with Kerem Tibuk - Blockstream Talk #12 | 18 Apr 2022 | 00:34:02 | |
1:30 - 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
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| Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange & the Democratization of Finance with Bruce Fenton - Blockstream Talk #11 | 04 Apr 2022 | 00:57:00 | |
1:02 - 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 expectations 18:27 - 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
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| Bitfinex Hack & Tether Use Cases in Emerging Markets with Paolo Ardoino - Blockstream Talk #10 | 23 Mar 2022 | 01:02:49 | |
Bitfinex 01:07 Who is Paulo Ardoino? 02:14 Path to finding Bitcoin and working at Bitfinex 13:24 Reasons Bitfinex does not face downtime during high volatility 15:17 Bitfinex being the most battle tested exchange 16:17 What is the Liquid Network value proposition compared to altcoins? 22:03 The origin story of Tether and its success 23:53 Difficulties of running an exchange 25:07 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 hack 42:41 Opportunities for Bitfinex Securities 48:39 Why are there so few security token exchanges? 50:38 Other types of assets that are important to Bitfinex 54:57 Updates on the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond 58:31 When will the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond be available? 59:54 Most exciting Bitcoin developments for 2022 📱 Download the Blockstream App
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| Bitcoin Privacy, Scaling Solutions, and Sidechains with Andrew Poelstra | 21 Mar 2022 | 01:07:23 | |
Blockstream Research 1:52 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
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