Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Lead Strategist at Kraken rejoins me on the show to talk about new lightning network developments and how Lightning network is growing:

• Experience of setting up LN at Kraken
• LN for day to day use not being big yet
• Millions of people plugged into Lightning
• Will LN node operation only be for pros?
• Long term fee / security arguments
• Thoughts on stablecoins vs Bitcoin

Links:

• Twitter: @pierre_rochard

Prior episodes:

• SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin as Savings Technology & Number Go Up
• SLP35 Pierre Rochard – Lightning Power Excel Plugin, Lightning Residency
• SLP11 – Bitcoin’s Decentralised Governance, with Pierre Rochard
• SLP3 – Bitcoin Investment Theses with Pierre Rochard

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• Swan Bitcoin
• Hodl Hodl Lend
• Compass Mining
• Braiins.com
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

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