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Treasury Companies, ETFs, and Bitcoin to $200K with Matt Hougan – Bitcoin Capital #19

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 6 Aug 2025 08:13:57 +0000

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Bitcoin ETF's, Treasuries and Institutional Momentum with James Seyffart - Bitcoin Capital #18

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:34:07 +0000

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Wall Street’s Bitcoin Awakening with Anthony Scaramucci - Bitcoin Capital #17

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 2 Jul 2025 00:29:55 +0000

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From Gold to Bitcoin with VanEck’s Matthew Sigel – Bitcoin Capital #16

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:34:24 +0000

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Bitcoin in Pension Funds: Institutional Adoption with Sam Roberts - Bitcoin Capital #15

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 7 May 2025 04:08:13 +0000

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To the Moon – How Space-Tech Pioneer KULR Is Betting on Bitcoin with Michael Mo - Bitcoin Capital #14

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 1 May 2025 02:15:17 +0000

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Bitcoin's Expanding Influence in Global Finance with Nik Bhatia - Bitcoin Capital #13

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:36:48 +0000

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The State of Bitcoin in Brazil: From Payments to Tokenization with Rocelo Lopes - Bitcoin Capital #12

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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America's Bitcoin Future with Preston Pysh and Perianne Boring - Bitcoin Capital #11

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Navigating New Frontiers in Asset Tokenization & ETF Markets with Eric Balchunas - Bitcoin Capital #10

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:46:56 +0000

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Unveiling New BTC Based Investments with Blockstream Asset Management (BAM) with Sean Bill - Bitcoin Capital #9

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The Great Script Restoration and Building Bitcoin Layer-2s with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #41

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:56:48 +0000

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01:51 The Great Script Restoration

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18:13 Covenants and layer-2s

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26:26 Greenlight: non-custodial Lightning-as-a-service

29:56 X-Pay plugin for Core Lightning

36:06 Core Lightning ecosystem growth

45:47 Bitcoin in 2025

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Bitcoin's Institutional Surge: ETFs, MSTR, and 2025 Predictions with Fred Krueger - Bitcoin Capital #8:

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:47:25 +0000

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Navigating Real-World Asset Tokenization with the Blockstream Mining Note #7

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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Money, Technology, and Capital Markets - Bitcoin Capital #6:

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 9 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0000

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The State of Digital Asset Adoption in Europe - Bitcoin Capital #5

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

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The Frontline of Tokenized Finance: Insights from Issuers - Bitcoin Capital #3

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Learn about the global investment opportunities unlocked by the HSVIL token for financing the new Hampton by Hilton at San Salvador Airport with Michelle Matioda, Director at Mikro Capital and Roberto Laguardia, CEO of Inverlag. Investment details: 🌊 Aim to raise $6.25M 🎟️ 10% coupon over 5 years ✋ Minimum investment of $1,000 Hosted by Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at @Bitfinexexchange.📱 Download the Blockstream App 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet 🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream 🧠 Follow Blockstream Research 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network ⚡️ Build on Core Lightning

Transforming Untapped Global Assets into Usable Capital - Bitcoin Capital #2

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Tokenized Securites with Adam Back and Paolo Ardoino - Bitcoin Capital #1

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Relai's Non-Custodial Lightning Integration with Greenlight - Blockstream Talk #40 - Adem Bilican

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02:19 Getting started in Bitcoin

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05:42 The benefits of a non-custodial architecture

07:54 Integrating non-custodial Lightning wallets in Relai

09:20 Partnering with Greenlight by Blockstream

10:45 Why Relai chose to integrate with Greenlight

12:56 Improving the user experience on Lightning

14:32 Greenlight integration process

17:17 Lightning adoption activity on Relai

21:10 Overcoming the challenges of integrating Lightning

23:40 Advice for enterprizes looking to integrate Lightning

25:08 What’s next for Relai?

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Streamlining Bitcoin Layer-2 Payments Using Liquid and Lightning On Aqua Wallet - Blockstream Talk #39

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10:58 Lightning payments in the Aqua wallet

21:42 Advantages of Tether on the Liquid Network

28:30 Jan3 Financial

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Beating the Bitcoin Blockchain Trilemma with Layer-2s - Blockstream Talk #38 with Byron Hambly

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02:53 Bitcoin circular economies in Africa

06:19 Fairer Bitcoin for the global south

07:36 Trade-offs between Lightning, Liquid and Fedimint

09:27 The blockchain trilemma

10:25 Interoperability between Lightning and Liquid

12:54 Understanding the Liquid Federation

16:43 Covenants on the Liquid Network

20:19 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network

21:45 Blockstream Asset Management Platform (AMP)

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Developing Bitcoin Commerce with Layer-2s and Vulpem Ventures featuring Marco Argentieri - Blockstream Talk #37

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02:09 The power of the Bitcoin Italia community

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12:55 Using layer-2s to stack bitcoin

14:26 Bitcoin layer-1 scaling conversations

15:51 Sharing UTXOs utilizing covenants

17:26 The evolving narratives of Bitcoin

18:45 Bitcoin volatility’s effect on use cases

21:06 The effect of higher L1 fees

23:29 The difference between Elements and Liquid

24:38 Atomic swaps with Banco by Vulpem

28:07 Getting started in Bitcoin development

31:36 Bitcoin in 2024

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Driving Global Adoption Using Bitcoin Layer-2s: Lightning and Liquid with Samson Mow - Blockstream Talk #36

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02:14 Introducing Samson Mow and JAN3

04:35 JAN3 approach to nation state orange pilling

08:44 Most receptive regions for nation state Bitcoin adoption

15:27 Bitcoin mining and nation state adoption

20:25 Geographical arbitrage and collectivism

24:32 AQUA wallet and Liquid BTC adoption

26:12 Key features of the AQUA wallet

30:33 Liquid based Tether (USDt)

32:25 Liquid FUD and Liquid derangement syndrome

35:49 Liquid and Lightning interoperability

38:22 Bitcoin layer-2 innovations

42:15 Bitcoin ETFs “Wild BTC vs Zoo BTC”

48:15 2024 and beyond for Bitcoin and JAN3

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

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02:13 Starting work on the Lightning Network

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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

32:6 New Bitcoin layer-2 protocols

34:40 Opcodes explained

37:32 Lightning Network mainstream adoption

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Greenlight: Transforming Non-Custodial Lightning Access with Christian Decker - Blockstream Talk #34

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02:32 The history of Core Lightning

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24:19 Developer and business onboarding to Greenlight

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33:40 Core Lightning and Greenlight look ahead

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42:47 Starting out building on Core Lightning

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Expanding Bitcoin's Global Reach Using Lightning with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #33

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:41:56 +0000

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02:15 Developing Lightning implementations from spec

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14:02 Lightning payments with Miss Universe El Salvador

15:48 Development of new Lightning use cases

17:14 Enabling wumbo payments on Lightning

18:54 Custodial vs non-custodial

21:58 ETF vs self-custody not your keys not your coins

23:36 The importance of taking self-custody

26:40 Optimising Lightning around mainchain fees

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37:15 Splicing and dual funding

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42:16 Starting development with Core Lightning

43:02 Sats vs Bits

43:56 Improving privacy on Lightning

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BTCPay Server: Optimizing Merchant Bitcoin Adoption - Blockstream Talk #32

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:01:06 +0000

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02:00 Introduction to BTCPay Server

02:43 BTCPay Server and Baltic Honeybadger

04:26 Utilizing SideShift and Prism plugins on BTCPay Server 09:53 How merchants deal with Bitcoin volatility

13:35 Scaling Lightning payments custodial vs non-custodial

20:55 Onboarding merchants to Bitcoin with BTCPay Server

23:46 Bitcoin POS systems used at Baltic Honeybadger

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HodlHodl, Debifi and Baltic Honeybadger with Max Keidun - Blockstream Talk #31

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:41:13 +0000

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02:40 Bitcoin conferences around the world

06:22 introduction to HODL HODL & Debifi

13:06 Non-custodial operations with multisig

16:02 Institutional interest in peer-to-peer markets

21:36 Starting up Baltic Honeybadger

30:55 Baltic Honeybadger 2023 announcements

34:32 Debifi API availability for institutional investors

35:51 Different use cases for Lightning & Liquid

38:46 HODL HODL and the Liquid Federation

40:47 Using Tether on the Liquid Network

41:38 Supported currencies on HODL HODL & Debifi

44:46 Different global use cases for Bitcoin

47:50 Find out more about Debifi & HODL HODL

48:46 The next 12 months in Bitcoin development

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Open-source Lightning Innovation with Ken Sedgwick from VLS - Blockstream Talk # 30

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:15:44 +0000

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02:00 What’s difficult about running a Lightning node?

06:42 Motivation for developing VLS

08:37 VLS basic security model

10:20 VLS hardware signing devices

11:17 VLS release status

13:46 VLS disaster recovery charter

17:15 VLS integration with Greenlight

18:34 UTXO set oracles

22:02 VLS validation rules

24:02 What’s next for VLS

25:17 Using multisignature with VLS

28:22 How to contribute to the VLS open-source project

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Codex32 and Paper Computers with Andrew Poelstra - Blockstream Talk #29

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:09:55 +0000

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1:28 Introduction to Blockstream Research

14:04 The Codex32 paper computer

20:51 What is Shamir’s Secret Sharing?

27:21 How Jade protects key information

34:47 Implementing Miniscript in Blockstream Jade

38:31 Wen Simplicity on Liquid ser?

48:45 Formal verification with Simplicity

53:31 Using Simplicity for CTV & APO functionality

59:35 How drivechains differ from other layer-2s

1:10:39 FROST and MuSig2

1:16:53 Blockstream Satellite and zero-knowledge proofs

1:22:13 Blockstream Research’s work on bulletproofs ++

1:35:52 The next 12-18 months in Bitcoin development

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Low-Time Preference Bitcoin Infrastructure & Development with Erik Svenson - Blockstream talk #28

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:24:42 +0000

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02:10 Erik’s path to Bitcoin

03:38 How Mt. Gox influenced Blockstream

06:26 Surviving multiple market cycles

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28:29 Blockstream Mining Note

32:33 Crossover between Bitcoin & tradfi

35:15 Institutional interest in integrating Liquid

38:50 Working with Dr. Adam Back

42:10 Bitcoin adoption inflection points

44:41 Bitcoin usage in different markets

46:42 What’s next for Blockstream?

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Unlocking Bitcoin's Potential with Layer-2 featuring Jeff Boortz - Blockstream Talk #27

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:16:21 +0000

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02:00 Jeff’s role at Blockstream 03:00 Bitcoin layer-2 synergies

04:05 Lightning & Liquid’s effect on Bitcoin adoption

11:00 Greenlight 12:39 Integrating Lightning in Blockstream Green 14:11 Use cases developing on Liquid

18:00 Confidential Transactions on the Liquid Network

20:24 The Blockstream Jade Bitcoin hardware wallet

23:00 Non-custodial trading of Liquid assets on Jade

24:15 Control & privacy benefits of decentralized technology

30:34 Institutional interest in the Liquid Network 33:29 Up & coming Blockstream projects

35:50 Timeline on Simplicity integration into Liquid

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Simplicity, Bitcoin's Last soft Fork? with Christian Lewe - Blockstream Talk #26

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:36:40 +0000

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3:26 Blockstream Research mission & structure

04:53 So simple it fits on a T-Shirt

09:30 Bitcoin’s last soft fork?

15:56 SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY

23:59Applications of Simplicity

2:40 Risks & rewards of merging Simplicity to Bitcoin L1

29:25 Fee market implications of merging Simplicity

33:36 The process of implementing SImplicity on Bitcoin

39:25 Criticisms of Simplicity

44:51 Relationship between Miniscript & Simplicity

49:47 Simplicity resources

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Greenlight Fixes This ⚡️ with Adi Shankara

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 3 Jul 2023 07:48:09 +0000

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🏗 Learn why even hardcore Bitcoin & Lightning developers should build on Greenlight

🎙 Learn more about Greenlight with Roy Shienfield & Christian Decker on the Stephan Livera Podcast

01:02 Who is Adi?

01:46 What is Greenlight?

02:50 Challenges of running a Lightning node

06:54 Status of Greenlight developer preview

09:26 Regulations and compliance

11:29 Building apps on Greenlight

13:58 Benefits of Lightning

15:03 Lightning Network adoption

15:52 The security of Greenlight

17:31 Cost effectiveness of running a node

18:50 Routing nodes vs edge nodes

19:42 Greenlight’s approach to privacy

20:54 Lightning node backups with Greenlight

22:00 Facilitating user off boarding to own infrastructure

22:42 No walled gardens

23:13 Liquid Integrations

23:43 Summer of Bitcoin

25:18 Adding Greenlight to Lightning devs tooling

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liquid.boltz.exchange

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:40:55 +0000

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🌊 Start building on Bitcoin with the Liquid Build On L2 community

🔩 Check out Boltz a privacy first, non-custodial Bitcoin exchange

00:45 What does Boltz do?

02:26 Using Liquid swaps

04:20 Why build on Liquid?

05:37 Challenges during implementation

07:42 Other channel rebalancing solutions

11:40 The swap process between Liquid and Lightning

15:34 What level of trust does Boltz require?

18:02 Lightning Network capacity

20:57 Bitcoin layer-2s supporting each other

22:05 Lightning Network transaction sizes

25:12 Lightning Network adoption

31:25 Optimizing Boltz

33:25 The Boltz API

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La Capa Financiera de Bitcoin con Adolfo Contreras - Blockstream Talk #24

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:36:07 +0000

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1:58 Las aplicaciones de blockchain en los mercados financieros

5:48 Los beneficios de usar estas tecnologías en los mercados financieros, tanto para los participantes del mercado como para los consumidores

15:06 Los desafíos principales que enfrenta la adopción de blockchain en los mercados financieros y cómo se pueden superar

21:10 ¿Qué es Elements y cuáles son sus principales características?

26:31 UTXO vs. Modelo de Cuentas

34: 09 ¿Qué es el Liquid Network y cómo funciona?

37:49 ¿Qué es el “shadow banking”?

40:27: La industria de los pagarés y sus principales desafíos

49:01 Otras industrias que tienen similares desafíos y una gran razón para digitalizarse de la misma manera que los pagarés?

51:36 Mineros de Bitcoin digitalizando sus acuerdos de compra de energía por parte de mineros

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Green The All-In-One Bitcoin Wallet with Alessandro Saglimbeni

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 15 May 2023 10:26:29 +0000

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01:14 Lessons from the Green Beta testing

07:46 Mnemonic interchangeability

12:50 Blockstream Green for beginners

16:47 A Bitcoin wallet’s core services

24:03 Blockstream Jade as a Bitcoin Miner

26:48 Blockstream Green’s pin unlock service

29:22 Secure elements

35:00 Open-source software & DIY

35:50 Liquid integration with Green

37:22 Watch only wallets

39:37 Greenlight

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Atomic Swaps, Decentralized Finance, and Digital Securities with SideSwap - Blockstream Talk #23

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 4 May 2023 06:40:06 +0000

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2:14 Why build on Bitcoin?

3:32 Colored Coins protocol

5:32 How Atomic Swaps work

8:00 The spectrum of decentralized finance

8:52 What SideSwap is focused on

12:14 Lessons from previous Bitcoin cycles

12:57 The importance of Bitcoin based capital markets

17:26 Issuing securities as bearer assets

19:35 The tokenization of securities

20:37 Transfer restricted asset technology

25:12 Differences between CEX & DEX

26:19 Private swaps on SideSwap

27:22 What does PEGx do?

31:46 Voting with Liquid digital securities

35:48 Dealing with regulators when facilitating trades

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ZeroSync & Blockstream Satellite - Blockstream Talk #22

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:05:41 +0000

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📡 Visit the Zero Sync website

🛰 Learn more about the Blockstream Satellite

2:39 Zero knowledge proofs

5:36 What makes ZeroSync different?

6:43 ZeroSync and Blockstream Satellite

8:37 Benefits of ZKPs

9:47 Development timeline

11:34 Hardware requirements

13:12 Use cases for the ZeroSync toolkit

15:39 Stark proofs, Simplicity & the Liquid Network

20:04 Security of ZeroSync proof systems

23:45 Long term implications of ZKPs for Bitcoin

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Making Bitcoin Self-Custody Easy with Rich Grambergs - Blockstream Talk #21

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:42:50 +0000

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01:51 Major developments in the self-custody landscape

03:41 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving

08:55 The fundamental problem Blockstream is solving

12:35 Other Bitcoin wallets that Jade works with

13:37 The Blockstream Jade reseller program

15:21 Blockstream Jade blind pin server

19:05 Other assets that Jade supports

20:50 The next 12 months in Jade development

22:53 Lightning integration in Blockstream Jade

23:50 Blockstream Green UX development

25:00 The Bitcoin hardware wallet market

26:23 Tradeoffs between singlesig & multisig

28:30 Common difficulties in bitcoin self-custody

29:55 Demonstrating Jade at Bitcoin Park

32:40 Common questions for Blockstream Support

34:42 How the Jade DIY process works

36:22 2023 look ahead for Blockstream Jade

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Promissory Notes on Liquid with Tomás Alvarez - Blockstream Talk #20

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:56:16 +0000

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0:00 Introduction

01:05 The fundamental problem Mifiel is trying to solve

01:38 What is a promissory note and what kind of people are using

04:27 Other markets that utilize promissory notes

06:13 Dealing with challenges in technology adoption

07:57 Utilizing the Liquid Network for tokenization

9:52 Dealing with regulations and licensing considerations

11:17 Secondary market trading of promissory notes

16:02 Decentralization and promissory notes

19:53 Quantity of promissory notes issued by Mifiel

20:43 Interest rates on promissory notes

23:24 Demand for promissory notes

25:03 Handling defaults on promissory notes

26:47 Reasons for issuing on the Liquid Network

32:52 Short term outlook for Mifiel

37:09 Benefits of tokenization

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Digital Securities Future with Kyle Fry - Blockstream Talk #19

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Fri, 6 Jan 2023 10:18:05 +0000

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DIGTLMarkets

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03:25 What makes MERJ unique

07:35 Different reasons for offshoring business

11:25 The Blockstream Mining Note and US markets

12:43 Security tokens & digital securities

24:16 Evolution of capital markets

34:35 How STOs can improve markets

43:19 Building on the Liquid Network

48:37 Risks and regulations after FTX crash

52:31 Future outlook for asset issuers

54:58 The STO industry in 10 years

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Lightning Signal with Rusty Russell - Blockstream Talk #18

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:54:11 +0000

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01:27 Starting work on Lightning at Blockstream

03:44 Lightning Network global adoption

04:46 Work on Bolt12 Lightning spec

10:41 Factors driving Lightning adoption

15:15 Bookkeeping with Core Lightning

21:31 Lightning Network unlocking micropayments

23:45 Integrating Lightning into Blockstream Green

26:02 Lightning wallet recommendations

28:48 Thoughts on El Salvador Bitcoin and Lightning adoption

32:55 Working in the open-source software space

38:43 Comparing Bitcoin to Linux

47:33 Exciting things coming to Lightning

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FTX Lessons with Dr Adam Back - Blockstream Talk #17

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:05:44 +0000

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00:43 FTX failure overview

04:45 Bankruptcy vs recovery token

09:55 FTX post mortem

33:43 Exchange revenue rights model

39:05 Proof of keys day

52:14 Lessons for investors from FTX insolvency

59:16 The future of DeFi

1:20:48 Asset issuance on the Liquid Network

1:25:02 Bitcoin mining market conditions

1:29:15 Crypto bailout pool

1:32:47 Looking ahead on the Bitcoin network

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Bitcoin's Financial Layer with Matthew Haywood - Blockstream Talk #16

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:19:24 +0000

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Liquid Network

03:06 Path to Bitcoin

05:56 The Liquid Network

07:22 Other assets and AMP management

09:06 What is the Liquid Federation?

13:56 Governance within the Federation

16:17 L-BTC Peg in growth

18:03 L-BTC as the native token

20:15 L-USDt transaction volume

22:54 Different layer-2 use cases

25:44 Liquid documentation for institutions

26:58 Asset management platform

33:24 Threshold for Tokenisation

36:22 The new Asset Management Tool

42:10 KYC responsibilities on the Liquid Network

43:57 What’s next for the Blockstream Asset Management Platform

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Bitcoin Venture Investing with Alyse Killeen - Blockstream Talk #15

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:43:41 +0000

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Stillmark

04:05 Health of the VC industry

06:49 Pitching Bitcoin to investors

09:08 Differentiating Crypto and Bitcoin VC

12:10 Narrative investing within Crypto tokens

28:18 Capital allocation framworks

32:55 The future of security tokens

36:14 Bitcoin's importance globally

39:41 Most exciting work within Bitcoin

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

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:21:55 +0000

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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Federated Security Models and E-Cash Built on Bitcoin With Eric Sirion

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:00:06 +0000

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FediMint

00:20 Personal privacy

00:58 Eric’s background

01:53 Freedom = privacy

03:41 Why work on Bitcoin?

05:07 Chaumian mints, ecash, Federations

08:43 Federated ecash

11:25 Federations in the future

12:57 Integrating Lightning into federations

16:20 Tokens

17:22 Lightning custodial usage

18:17 Minimint_btc

21:11 Bitcoin usage in El Salvador

23:16 Choosing a federated ecash

26:44 Exciting things moving forward

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Bitcoin Wallet Technology & Self-Custody Best Practices with Lawrence Nahum

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Fri, 1 Jul 2022 13:30:00 +0000

00:23 Discovering Bitcoin

02:38 Blockstream Wallet Offerings

05:05 Wallet Features

09:53 Lightning Integration

10:45 Long Term Wallet Development

11:50 Going Off-chain

12:13 Jade and Other Hardware Wallets

15:29 Wallet Security

24:36 Secure Elements

26:26 Self-custody best practices

30:11 Custodian Stress Tests

30:40 Exciting Bitcoin Developments

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Luna Lessons with Dr. Adam Back - Blockstream Talk #13

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jesse Knutson, Adam Back) — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000

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00:55 - What happened in the Terra ecosystem?

08:05 - Crypto market cap is a misleading metric

12:11 - UST failures effect on other stablecoins

23:40 - Incentives within the DeFi space

26:30 - Could the Luna situation have ended differently?

31:15 - Stablecoin velocity and resiliency

36:09 - Liquidity and backing within stablecoins

41:21 - Bitcoin stigma in banking

44:08 - Key lessons

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Turkish Lira Inflation & the Bitcoin Exchange Business with Kerem Tibuk - Blockstream Talk #12

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000

@btcturk

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BTC Turk

1:30 - Meeting Kerem

3:50 - Is BtcTurk strictly for residents of Turkey?

5:38 - How big is the market in Turkey?

6:49 - What are the biggest hurdles to running an exchange?

11:42 - What is the biggest hassle of running an exchange in Turkey?

13:48 - Are there more transactions when turmoil breaks out in an area?

16:41 - Do people in Turkey view Bitcoin differently than Western countries?

19:12 - Is there a concern of capital controls in Turkey?

21:27 - What trends will exchanges see in 2022?

26:36 - Does Turkey see Bitcoin as a growth vector?

28:01 - Is Lightning useful for exchanges and traders?

29:58 - Central banking not liking Lightning as competition

31:30 - Are Bitcoin cycles over?

33:19 - Most exciting developments to look forward to for Bitcoin in 2022

34:45 - Where to find Kerem

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Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange & the Democratization of Finance with Bruce Fenton - Blockstream Talk #11

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jesse Knutson, Bruce Fenton) — Mon, 4 Apr 2022 16:20:00 +0000

1:02 - Meeting Bruce

2:32 - What role does Bitcoin have in improving the future?

8:24 - Is the current world environment is taylor made for Bitcoin?

11:36 - How did the Bitcoin narrative change over time?

15:45 - Bitcoin transitioning to the medium of exchange

17:50 - Bitcoin beating adoption expectations

18:27 - What are the opportunities for digital securities and STO's?

25:36 - Is STO development being done within the United States?

31:25 - What other assets are being tokenized?

34:09 - What has been bottlenecking STO development?

36:55 - Democratization of finance

38:33 - Tokenizing low volume assets

41:44 - Securities becoming globalized

43:37 - Can securities be built upon Bitcoin?

50:53 - Bitcoin being the most secure blockchain

53:32 - Most interesting developments for Bitcoin in 2022?

56:47 - Where to find Bruce?

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Bitfinex Hack & Tether Use Cases in Emerging Markets with Paolo Ardoino - Blockstream Talk #10

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Paulo Ardoino, Jesse Knutson) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:15:00 +0000

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01:07 Who is Paulo Ardoino?

02:14 Path to finding Bitcoin and working at Bitfinex

13:24 Reasons Bitfinex does not face downtime during high volatility

15:17 Bitfinex being the most battle tested exchange

16:17 What is the Liquid Network value proposition compared to altcoins?

22:03 The origin story of Tether and its success

23:53 Difficulties of running an exchange

25:07 Will Bitcoin become less volatile thus destroying altcoins and stablecoins?

31:10 Why would first world countries not care for Tether and other stablecoins?

35:23 Bitfinex response to their 2016 hack

42:41 Opportunities for Bitfinex Securities

48:39 Why are there so few security token exchanges?

50:38 Other types of assets that are important to Bitfinex

54:57 Updates on the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond

58:31 When will the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond be available?

59:54 Most exciting Bitcoin developments for 2022

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Bitcoin Privacy, Scaling Solutions, and Sidechains with Andrew Poelstra

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Andrew Poelstra, Jesse Knutson) — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:30:00 +0000

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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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Bitcoin Marketing & Argentina Hyperinflation with Fernando Nikolic - Blockstream Talk #9

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Fernando Nikolic, Jesse Knutson) — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:15:00 +0000

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Blockstream

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1:42 - What challenges do you have marketing products that are ahead of their time?

8:32 - Do you think mainstream media is anti-Bitcoin?

11:39 - What are the hardest parts of communicating Blockstream and Bitcoin to the public?

15:03 - Has marketing for Bitcoin become easier overtime?

15:54 - How do you see Bitcoin being used differently in other parts of the world?

23:13 - What is the sentiment of Tether around the world?

27:00 - Did your family ties to Argentina lead you down the Bitcoin rabbit hole?

34:26 - Thoughts on the future of stablecoins?

36:15 - Why is Liquid not more popular?

41:17 - What are some Blockstream milestones to look forward to in 2022?

42:30 - What are you looking forward to in Bitcoin for 2022?

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Fork Wars & the Biggest Innovations Happening in Bitcoin with Jonas Nick - Blockstream Talk #8

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jonas Nick, Jesse Knutson) — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:30:00 +0000

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Blockstream Research

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1:35 - Biggest innovations happening in Bitcoin right now

4:11 - How long does a BIP take to get implemented into the Bitcoin protocol?

5:54 - What are Bitcoin's core principles?

8:32 - What off chain capabilities need to be deployed for Taproot to be considered successful?

13:43 - Thoughts on the 2017 fork wars and why small blocks won out

17:37 - Threats to Bitcoin that were bigger than the fork wars

19:09 - Impressions of El Salvador after visiting

21:49 - Do El Salvador citizens use Bitcoin for savings or for payment processing?

22:22 - Sentiment of Bitcoin amongst El Salvador citizens

24:20 - Surprising learnings after visiting El Salvador

26:19 - PTLC's in Lightning and the significance of having it on a day to day basis

29:54 - MuSig

31:45 - Predictions for Bitcoin in 2022

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Bitcoin Mortgages & Hyperinflation with Tuur Demeester - Blockstream Talk #7

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jesse Knutson, Tuur Demeester) — Thu, 6 Jan 2022 17:20:00 +0000

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1:13 Meeting Tuur

3:02 How the global financial crisis made Bitcoin interesting

5:30 Impressions of the El Salvador Bitcoin Bond

8:15 Details of the Bitcoin Bond in El Salvador

19:37 Path for emerging markets adopting Bitcoin

26:45 What the world looks like if the Bitcoin Bond is oversubscribed

28:24 Other products that can be improved with Bitcoin

34:59 Thoughts on democratization of general investing

35:40 Products in the traditional markets interesting for Bitcoin to adopt

42:55 Are there still cycles in Bitcoin?

45:14 Thoughts on Bitcoin price action

51:15 Crackdown in China

54:45 What's exciting in Bitcoin for 2022

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

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jesse Knutson, Arnab Naskar) — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000

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

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Moritz Wietersheim, Jesse Knutson) — Wed, 8 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000

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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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Financial Products on Bitcoin & Institutional Demand with Jesse Knutson - Blockstream Talk #4

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Jesse Knutson, Samson Mow) — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:07:07 +0000

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1:25 Jesse’s introduction

2:15 Jesse's journey from banker to bitcoin

4:32 Jesse trying to get banks to get involved in Bitcoin

10:50 What is BMN?

15:50 What is the future for BMN?

17:32 Paul Tudor Jones on investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoins network effects growing

20:39 Institutional investors taking a while to get into Bitcoin

21:55 Goals for Blockstream's acquisition of Adamant Capital

23:25 Macquarie's partnership with Blockstream

26:49 What is Blockstream markets newsletter

28:25 TA in bitcoin charts

30:48 What is Jesse most excited about for Bitcoin's future

32:10 Closing remarks

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Lightning: Bringing the Digital Cash Narrative Back with Christian Decker - Blockstream Talk #3

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:09:47 +0000

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2:27 - What is the Lightning Network, and what problems is it trying to solve?

5:29 - Limitations of the Lightning Network

7:22 - Existing protocols tackling the scaling problem

9:54 - The blocksize war

11:34 - How Lightning interacts with Liquid

13:39 - Are the different Lightning implementations competing with each other?

15:52 - How far are we in terms of user adoption?

19:29 - The role of Lightning in Bitcoin´s ease of use

23:34 - Where is the biggest potential growth for Lightning in the next five years?

25:23 - The most important technical issues when scaling Lightning

28:12 - Why have exchanges been slow at integrating Lightning?

31:10 - What the implementation of Taproot and Schnorr signatures means for the Lightning Network

34:39 - Blockstream Greenlight

38:44 - Questions from the Blockstream Talk community on Twitter

50:23 - Exciting prospects for Bitcoin´s future

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Mining, STOs on Liquid & El Salvador's Bitcoin Opportunity with Samson Mow - Blockstream Talk #2

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:27:49 +0000

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2:17 What is going on in China? Is mining done for good?

3:10 Can Chinese investors still buy and sell Bitcoin?

4:46 How important is Chinese retail to Bitcoin price appreciation?

5:26 What was the motivation behind China’s latest crackdown?

7:06 Is the mining hardware supply chain at risk?

9:06 Where has Chinese hashrate migrated to? How long will it take to recover?

10:58 Security Tokens will drive the reformation of traditional capital markets

13:02 Trading venues, technology, and regulations are coming together for STOs

15:42 There seems to be a groundswell of interest in NFTs, how is Liquid being applied to NFTs?

18:50 Is El Salvador the first domino for dollarized economies?

20:58 Bitcoin is turning out to be a global growth driver

20:25 What is the state of the Lightning Network at the moment and what does it need to grow?

24:06 Within all the things that you’re involved in, what excites you the most?

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Early Days of Bitcoin & Future Outlook with Dr. Adam Back - Blockstream Talk #1

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:18:31 +0000

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01:20 Evolutionary History of Bitcoin and early attempts at creating electronic cash

11:38 What could have been Satoshi's thought process when designing Bitcoin

16:40 Bitcoin is not a prototype, it simply has a narrow pocket of design space

20:20 Bitcoin is not old technology, it is one of the most active open source projects in existence

22:22 Adam's early days in Bitcoin

31:44 What were the biggest threats for Bitcoin in the early days? What are potential threats going forward?

38:42 Proper ways to decentralize financial instruments using Bitcoin: Blockstream Mining Note

43:31 What is Bitcoin's value proposition? Bitcoin appeals to different people for different reasons

49:36 What are the most exciting things to look forward in the Bitcoin space?

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Blockstream Talk - Trailer

svc-marketing@blockstream.com (Blockstream) — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:04:20 +0000

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. 📱 Download the Blockstream App 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet 🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream 🧠 Follow Blockstream Research 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network ⚡️ Build on Core Lightning