Liquid Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow

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Liquid Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow

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2020May 19

In this interview, I talk to Adam Back and Samson Mow Blockstream’s CEO & Chief Strategy Officer. We discuss Blockstream’s Liquid Network, a sidechain solution for faster and more confidential transactions aimed at traders and exchanges. WHERE TO FIND THE SHOW → My website: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/ → iTunes: https://apple.co/2OOlzVV → Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ygc4W1 → Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2IQO8fX → SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/2CGSVQR → YouTube: https://bit.ly/2pR3s3g → TuneIn: https://bit.ly/2ywystr LISTEN TO OLD EPISODES → By guest: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/guests/ → By topic: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/topics/ → Transcriptions: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/transc... SUPPORT THE SHOW → https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/sponso... → Become a Patron: / whatbitcoindid → Subscribe on iTunes → Leave a review on iTunes → Share the show out with your friends and family on social media → Drop me a line on hello@whatbitcoindid.com WHERE TO FOLLOW ME: → Twitter: / whatbitcoindid → Medium: / whatbitcoindid → Instagram: / whatbitcoindid → Facebook: / whatbitcoindid → YouTube: / whatbitcoindid → Website: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ → Email list: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/subscr... LEARN ABOUT BITCOIN & CRYPTO: → Step by Step Guide: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/beginn... → Training: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/training/ → Resources: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/resour... **** “What could you do with Bitcoin if you could do anything? The answer is really Liquid.” — Samson Mow Location: Zoom Date: Friday 15th May Project: Blockstream Role: CEO & Chief Strategy Officer Bitcoin: decentralised, permissionless, censorship-resistant and unconfiscatable. Unique properties which make it a unique form of money For Bitcoin to keep growing, these features mustn't be compromised. However, scaling solutions for Bitcoin, may trade off some of these features for other benefits. With the vast majority of the community in agreement that block sizes must remain small to maximise decentralisation, Bitcoin is best scaled using layered solutions. The Liquid Network, like the Lightning Network, is a layer two solution that, by sacrificing some aspects of decentralisation and censorship resistance, can improve speed and scalability. Liquid is a project spearheaded by Blockstream and is aimed at traders, exchanges and market makers to offer faster and more confidential transactions than the Bitcoin basechain. It also adds the ability to build tokens on the network. In this interview, I talk to Adam Back and Samson Mow Blockstream's CEO & Chief Strategy Officer. We discuss The Liquid Network, the tradeoffs between Liquid and the basechain, how it differs from Lightning network and tokenised securities.