Bitcoin Basics
What is the Lightning Network? A Revolution in Bitcoin Transactions
The Lightning Network represents a significant stride in addressing Bitcoin's scalability challenges.
The Lightning Network represents a significant stride in addressing Bitcoin's scalability challenges.
Matt Corallo joins the show to give us an update on the state of the lightning network, where it is improved, the kinks that need to be worked out, and how it may evolve in the future.
It will be interesting to see what the Fedi team brings to market with their commerical products.
Fedimint, if successful, could provide the stack with an opensource, distributed, censorship resistant custody layer.
> Taro uses a new data structure I call a Merkle Sum Sparse Merkle tree which combines the properties of a merkle sum tree along with a Sparse Merkle Tree to construct commits that enable 3rd party supply/balance verification and also efficient proofs of non-inclusion — Olaoluwa Osuntokun (@roasbeef) April 5,
If possible, CoinPools would enable billions of people to claim ownership to on-chain bitcoin in the form of a slice of a UTXO.
A wide range of applications and tools that could bring more utility, accessibility, and security to users using the Lightning Network.
As with everything that involves Bitcoin, this product comes with tradeoffs.
