In this episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast, Paul Sztorc, founder of LayerTwo Labs, joins Bryce and Brendan to challenge the direction of Bitcoin development and explain why he believes Bitcoin risks falling behind without meaningful upgrades. A longtime Bitcoin advocate, Paul argues that Bitcoin Core has become too conservative, the Lightning Network has fundamental scaling limitations, and existing sidechain solutions have failed to deliver Bitcoin's full potential.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:24 - Discovering Bitcoin in 2011

03:26 - Why Bitcoin attracted an economist

07:57 - Why Paul turned against Bitcoin maximalism

11:35 - Bitcoin Core, hard forks, and developer complacency

15:49 - Why Bitcoin needs better Layer 2 solutions

16:48 - The fundamental problems with Lightning Network

21:17 - Liquid Network exploit and Bitcoin sidechain security

29:31 - Drivechain and the future of Bitcoin scalability

32:57 - eCash, Bitcoin upgrades, and the October 31 hard fork

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