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Jesse Knutson

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Bitcoin Beyond Finance: Transforming Global Industries - Bitcoin Capital #4

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08/26/24 • 66 min

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Bitcoin Privacy, Scaling Solutions, and Sidechains with Andrew Poelstra

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03/21/22 • 67 min

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1:52 What is Blockstream researching?

4:12 Why is Bitcoin privacy important?

15:05 Is AI and Bitcoin on opposite sides when it comes to the goals of privacy?

21:02 - Is the current approach to scaling Bitcoin to put as little data on the blockchain as possible?

28:42 - With all of the efficiency upgrades to Bitcoin, will the mempool get backed up like it did in 2017?

32:51 - Are bitcoin custodians bad for decentralization, but good for mempool space?

34:41 - What was Satoshi Dice? And what current practices will be looked back upon as something that was inefficient?

39:11 - How is Bitcoin different from other crypto assets?

48:25 - What is Liquid and what does it solve?

54:01 - What DeFi applications are being built on Liquid?

59:23 - Is this proper DeFi or pseudo DeFi?

1:00:51 - What is the most exciting thing coming to Bitcoin?

1:06:00 - Does the modularity of Miniscript help with adoption?

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Blockstream Talk - Trailer

Blockstream Talk

08/23/21 • 0 min

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Blockstream Talk, a new podcast that will provide a glimpse into all the cutting edge Bitcoin products and technologies being developed at Blockstream. The goal of this podcast is to introduce very interesting people and their projects in a format that is accesible to everyone regardless of your background. 🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream 🧠 Follow Blockstream Research 🏦 Register for the next Bitcoin Capital livestream 📱 Download Blockstream Green wallet 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network ⚡️ Build on Core Lightning

Issuing STOs on Liquid & the Future of Capital Markets with Arnab Naskar -Blockstream Talk #6

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12/23/21 • 47 min

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1:11 - Meeting Arnab

2:05 - What is STOKR

3:51 - Current capital markets being outdated and what the future holds for them

7:35 - What is an STO and their difference between ICOs

11:22 - Liquid being a good way to issue STOs

13:00 - Privacy on Liquid being important

14:46 - Reasons for STOs becoming popular

16:56 - Benefits of tokenization

19:40 - Countries that are setting themselves up well with regulations

21:30 - U.S. being so hard to provide STO access to

23:06 - Large players getting interested in STOs

25:06 - Opportunities of STOs

29:44 - Bridging the old world to the new world

31:33 - Regulators views on STOs

35:20 - Thoughts on El Salvador bond

39:50 - Views on India adopting Bitcoin

42:42 - STOs in India

43:37 - Most exciting future developments in the Bitcoin world

46:17 - Where to find STOKR and Arnab

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Roadmap for Blockstream's ASIC Bitcoin Miner with Assaf Gilboa - Blockstream Talk #14

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08/03/22 • 57 min

Blockstream Mining

05:29 Boom or bust in Bitcoin mining

07:22 What makes Spondoolies different?

09:20 Making ASIC parts easily replaceable

10:46 Blockstream and Spondoolies synergies

13:07 Optimizing Blockstream's Bitcoin mining

13:52 Air cooled and immersion mining

16:00 Institutional investment entering Bitcoin mining

18:17 Road map for Blockstream's upcoming ASIC machine

20:55 Centralization of chip foundry services

25:32 Essential advanced manufacturing processes

28:17 Foundry services planning rigidity

30:02 Difficulties in securing chip allocations

31:00 Bitcoin miners foundry requirements

32:14 Current selling pressure on miners

34:19 ASIC acquisition industry dynamics

39:24 ASIC price change implications

41:34 Mining industry consolidation during the bear market

43:33 Hashrate is looking for stability

46:43 Modelling Bitcoin hashrate and price

49:11 Why more manufacturers aren't in Bitcoin

53:00 Bitcoin mining in 5 years

58:39 The upcoming Blockstream ASIC

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Hyperbitcoinization & the Liquid Network with Moritz Wietersheim - Blockstream Talk #5

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12/08/21 • 40 min

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2:20 Criticisms of the Liquid network

4:49 What is Hyperbitcoinization

6:24 Why would someone use the Liquid network

11:33 Views of Tether and other stable coins in Panama

14:49 Reasons to have stable coins on Liquid

16:09 Self custodian on Spectre

17:41 Using Spectre with Liquid assets

19:38 Hyperbitcoinization is ahead of schedule

22:09 What are the forces behind Hyperbitcoinization

25:29 Thoughts on people migrating to El Salvador

28:28 Thoughts on Bitcoin City

31:26 What is the El Salvador Volcano Bond and the overall sentiment of it

38:16 What is the most exciting thing in the world of Bitcoin going forward

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OTC Desk Bitcoin Reserve on the Prime Trust Debacle & Self-Custody - Blockstream Talk #25

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07/19/23 • 54 min

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02:03 What is Bitcoin Reserve?

04:17 OTC desks in Bitcoin

09:30 Institutional pushback on self-custody

15:13 Bitcoin adoption demographics

17:40 Bitcoin Reserve's Liquid integration

21:05 Tether on Liquid

24:52 Being a Liquid Network member

26:47 Trustless swaps between Lightning & Liquid

27:39 A pick up in OTC activity

29:22 Andrew Howard on Prime Trust debacle

45:42 The future of Bitcoin Reserve

48:35 Things to look forward to in Bitcoin

51:42 Bitcoin Jiu Jitsu

Advancing Bitcoin Education using Base58 and Bitcoin++ with Lisa Neigut - Blockstream Talk #35

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12/15/23 • 44 min

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02:13 Starting work on the Lightning Network

03:34 Differentiated features of Core Lightning

06:24 Working on “Lightning v2”

08:13 Greenlight: Lightning node as a service

11:53 The benefits of non-custodial architecture

12:41 Starting work on open-source projects

13:57 Recruitment for open-source projects

15:14 Marketing Bitcoin development opportunities

20:29 Lightning FUD

22:22 BTC Plus Plus developer conference

26:53 Base58: A Bitcoin protocol school

29:04 Boltz.Exchange: Liquid and Lightning swaps