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Feb 2023

1h 27m

SLP461 What Bitcoin Specialises In with ...

About this episode

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
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Prior episodes: SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken

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