Tadge Dryja chats with us about writing the Lightning Network paper and working in the Bitcoin space.
We discussed:
- Could blocks be bigger? (0:59)
- Paper: On the instability of Bitcoin without the block reward (9:49)
- Serving billions with Lightning (10:40)
- The state of the debate when writing the Lightning Network White Paper (13:35)
- Would Lightning be possible without Segwit? (17:20)
- Looking in from outside on a project you started (18:54)
- Trimmed HTLCs: Sending 1 sat vs 100,000 sats (22:02)
- Limitations of the Lightning network (25:31)
- Do high fees break lightning? (28:24)
- LN-Symmetry (Eltoo) (31:50)
- SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT (33:20)
- Why are soft forks so hard? (34:15)
- What’s your wishlist (hardfork wishlist wiki, softfork wishlist wiki) for protocol changes? (36:18)
- Bitcoin needs to become more usable (37:54)
- Block explorers showing addresses for inputs (41:54)
- Tadge’s thoughts on Education (44:17)
- MAS.S62: Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design
- Dynamics of working on Bitcoin (47:16)