The Kevin Rooke Show
TLS37: Mempool Co-Founder Simon on Open Source Bitcoin Projects, Lightning, Liquid, Bisq, & Bitcoin's Mempool
Apr 15 2022 • 1hr 1m
Show Notes
In our conversation, we discussed the value of building Mempool as an open-source, self-hosted project, the Liquid Network’s role as a side chain on Bitcoin, peer-to-peer exchanges like Bisq, and the debate around Bitcoin’s transaction fee sustainability.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - Simon Intro
03:00 - The Importance of Building Open Source & Self-Hosted Projects
14:41 - The Future of Centralized vs. Self-Hosted Applications
25:57 - The Liquid Network as a Sidechain on Bitcoin
37:31 - Why Haven’t Exchanges Integrated Liquid?
42:00 - Mempool’s Plans to Build a Lightning Explorer
44:33 - Bitcoin’s Mempool & Transaction Fee Sustainability
52:21 - Incentives for Bitcoin Businesses to Move to Lightning & Liquid
56:09 - The Similarities and Differences Between Taro & Liquid
59:45 - The Lightning Round
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@j24
324 sats
Jun 3 2022
Those who got a spark for self hosting, check out the Self Hosted podcast by Jupiter podcasting. They're also v4v enabled through podcasting 2.0