Let’s Talk Bitcoin! #418 Statechains, and Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money

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On this week’s episode….

Segment 1 

“Long Bitcoin, Short the World?  Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money”

• CoinDesks’ Nolan hosts a fascinating Discussion with Eric Weinstein at Invest2019(https://www.coindesk.com/events/invest-2019)
• They talk about embedded growth obligations and the sociopathic companies they engender…
• …and Tuur Demeester’s (https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester) Reformation of Bitcoin (https://docsend.com/view/ijd8qrs)
• Is everything fine, or are we already experiencing a low grade revolution?
• The big value of blockchains is that they replicate real world “It just works”, if imperfectly.
• Much more in this wide-ranging “fireside chat”

Segment 2

“New Tools, Layers, and Tradeoffs for scaling Blockchains” 

• In Segment 2, the hosts of Let’s Talk Bitcoin are joined by Ruben Somsen to dig into his proposal for blockchain agnostic “Statechains”
• A low-trust, low knowledge, high accessibility approach to side chains
• Pairing Statechains with Lightning Networks
• Ruben’s journey from podcasting enthusiast (https://www.unhashedpodcast.com/) to scaling innovator
   

https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1145738783192600576

Episode 418 Credits:

Sponsors

Hosts

https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1145738783192600576)

Special thanks to

• Invest2019,
• Nolan
• Eric Weinstein

Producer

• Adam B. Levine

Editors

• Jonas
• Adam B. Levine

Music

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