EP1 - Bitcoin before Maximalism: The experiments we forgot.
Before Ethereum. Before smart contracts. Before the hype around NFTs and ICOs — Bitcoin was already experimenting.In this episode of Beyond Digital Gold we rewind to 2012–2014, when developers were pushing Bitcoin’s limits with: • Colored Coins were early real-world assets • Mastercoin, the first ICO in crypto history • Counterparty and Rare Pepes, the first NFTs • Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s first native Layer 2Featuring JR Willett, Matt Luongo, Yoni Assia, Adam Krellenstein and Elizabeth Stark, and co-hosted with Nathan from StarkWare, this episode asks a fundamental question:👉 If Bitcoin has alre...
Unconfirmed: Why It Doesn’t Make Sense to Compare Lightning to DeFi - Ep.279
Ryan Gentry, business development lead at Lightning Labs, discusses the latest updates on the Lightning Network, the layer 2 solution for Bitcoin. Highlights:
how Lightning Network is bringing Bitcoin to the masses through partnerships with Twitter, Substack, and Paxful
what the significance of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin means for the Lightning Network
how many nodes are running Lightning Network nodes
why the capacity on the Lightning Network has grown rapidly
how Ryan has seen interest in Lightning has changed since the El Salvador announcement earlier this year
what stage of adoption Ryan thinks the Lightning Network is
why Lightning Network total-value-locked should not be compared to Ethereum L2s or other DeFi protocols
how Lightning Network differs from DeFi
what metric Ryan believes is the best way to measure adoption on Lightning Network
how El Salvador has changed the types of transactions being made on Lightning Network
what’s next for Lightning Network and how Lightning micropayments could affect how podcasts (like Unchained!) are distributed
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Episode Links
Ryan Gentry
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanthegentry
The Summer of Lightning: Reaching the Tipping Point
https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-lightning-reaching
Lightning Labs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning
Website: https://lightning.engineering/
Lightning Enabled Tips
Twitter:
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/bringing-tips-to-everyone
Substack:
https://decrypt.co/79215/substack-accept-bitcoin-payments-lightning-network
Paxful Integration
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/paxful-integrates-bitcoin-lightning-network
Arcane Research Paper
Paper:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60377b34e7791c1277aaae97/t/615cb9aeaab8c63e1a732771/1633466815710/The+State+of+Lightning.pdf
Tweet thread:
https://twitter.com/ArcaneResearch/status/1445749299703205894
Lightning Network stats
https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&c=native&category=Lightning&chartStyle=column&contractExpiration=1640908800&ema=0&m=lightning.NetworkCapacitySum&mAvg=0&mMedian=0&resolution=24h&zoom=all
https://1ml.com/statistics
Lightning Network Resources
https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html
Preston Pysh episode with BTC Sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bBJjVEg1U
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a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture
with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Elizabeth Stark (@starkness), and Jessica Verrilli (@jess)
Why does decentralization matter? This episode of the a16z Podcast -- based on a discussion that first took as part of an “Intro to Crypto” event that Andreessen Horowitz and #Angels put on in April 2018 -- explores the whys and the hows, from the history of the internet to the culture of crypto communities today. Chris Dixon (now of a16z crypto) and Elizabeth Stark (CEO and co-founder of Lightning Labs) share their thoughts with moderator Jessica Verrilli (a founding partner of #Angels, former vice president of corp dev and strategy at Twitter, and now general partner at Google Ventures).
You can see other talks from this event -- including a video on the building blocks of crypto; a podcast on the regulatory landscape; and thoughts on building companies in crypto, from people to code -- here.
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