Matt Corallo of Spiral Bitcoin rejoins me to chat about the purpose of Bitcoin and developments in the space:

• Bitcoin contrasted with stablecoins
• Bitcoin’s specialty
• Future problems vs today problems
• Canadian Trucker Bitcoin
• Donations and adversarial environments
• Cultural aspects
• What does it take to have Bitcoin Soft forks again?
• LDK

Links:

• Twitter: @TheBlueMatt
• Spiral: Spiral.xyz
• LDK: Lightningdevkit.org 
• Async payment post
• Prior episodes: SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken

Other relevant episodes:

• SLP449 James O’Beirne OP_Vault – A New Way to HODL?
• SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks
• SLP456 Casey Rodarmor What are Ordinals?
• SLP349 Chris Stewart Bitcoin DLCs & Stablechannels
• SLP298 Rusty Russell – Lightning Offers / BOLT12: The next big thing in Lightning?

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Mempool.space
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
• Buildonl2.com
• BTCPrague.com

Stephan Livera links:

• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera