I recently spoke at Bitcoin Seoul 2024 and here are some interviews with some of the speakers:

• Calvin Kim on utreexo
• Gloria Zhao on Bitcoin Core and mempool
• Laolu on Taproot Assets and covenants
• Saifedean on Central Banking and tax cattle
• Obi Nwosu on Fedi
• Jimmy Song on Bitcoin in Korea

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Calvin Kim on importance of Bitcoin conferences

(01:51) - Simplifying Utreexo

(03:31) - What is Utreexod?

(04:51) - Will node providers support Utreexo?

(06:38) - Gloria Zhao on BIP431 (Truc)

(08:15) - Implications of Truc

(12:26) - What is mempool cluster?

(14:08) - P2P encryption on Bitcoin core V27.0

(15:22) - Upcoming developments on Bitcoin core

(18:04) - Sponsors(20:13) - Laolu (Roasbeef) on Taproot assets

(25:29) - LSP Challenges on issuing stablecoins

(28:21) - Views on covenants

(31:51) - Ensuring protocol safety while enabling Opcodes

(34:33) - Saifedean’s views on Bitcoin Seoul 2024

(34:44) - Central Bank behaving like a private organisation

(40:21) - ‘The Keynesian Voodoo’ 

(46:35) - All roads lead to Bitcoin

(48:26) - Sponsors

(50:45) - Latest developments at Fedi with Obi Nwosu

(52:23) - Role of the Fedimint Guardians

(54:40) - Fees on Fedi

(56:18) - Fedi’s Social backup and recovery model

(58:26) - Risks of getting rugged

(1:01:23) - Fedi is trust-reduced

(1:03:11) - Jimmy Song’s views on Bitcoin Seoul 2024

(1:04:18) - Views on Bitcoin’s Technical developments

(1:05:46) - Savings culture among Koreans & role of Bitcoin

(1:09:16) - Outro

Links:

• X: x.com/saifedean
• Saifedean episode: https://saifedean.com/podcast/222-central-banking-works
• X: x.com/glozow
• Bitcoin review club:  https://bitcoincore.reviews/
• BIP 431: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0431.mediawiki
• X: x.com/obi 
• Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/
• X: x.com/roasbeef
• Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/
• X: https://x.com/kcalvinalvinn
• Utreexod beta release: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/5GyV9af9lv4?pli=1 
• X: x.com/jimmysong

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
• Mempool.space
• Nomadcapitalist.com/apply

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