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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adamant Research
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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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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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