TLS14: Alex Gladstein on How Bitcoin Improves Freedom, Stablecoins, and Improving the Lightning Network
Jan 25 2022 • 48m
Show Notes
Alex and I spoke about how Bitcoin improves financial freedom, how Lightning extends Bitcoin’s functionality, and the ways in which Lightning still needs to improve for journalists, dissidents, and citizens under authoritarian rule.
→ The Human Rights Foundation: https://hrf.org
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Alex Gladstein Intro
04:22 - Integrating Bitcoin at the Human Rights Foundation
06:42 - How Bitcoin Improves Freedom
10:00 - What Can & Can’t Bitcoin Fix?
16:39 - Lightning’s Advantage over On-Chain Bitcoin
21:07 - Stabilized Lightning
32:32 - Who Wants Crypto Dollars?
36:17 - The Impact of Stablecoins on the US Dollar
42:48 - Exciting Bitcoin/Lightning Developments
46:25 - The Lightning Round
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@johnsbrt
4,900 sats
Jan 27 2022
booooost
@blokchainboog
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21 May
Great interview. it’s May 2023 and synthetic stablecoins have been launched by various wallets.
@merryoscar
1,100 sats
Jan 27 2022
Great episode. Considering one of the HRF bounties was for BOLT-12 - I’d love to see an episode that explains what BOLTs are in more detail and the process around developing the spec and implementing them. Maybe you could find a good guest for this?
@random
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Feb 1 2022 • UNKNOWN
This is a great comment!
@merryoscar
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Feb 2 2022
Testing
@jpnledger
50 sats
Jan 28 2022
great show!