#206: Ryan Gentry

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 195 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Gentry, Business Development at Lightning Labs, to discuss:

- Austin, Texas

- Ryan's time at Intel

- Chip fabs

- Proof of Work as an essential component of cryptocurrencies

- The Order of Operations necessary to create a truly distributed cryptocurrency

- Reading white papers

- Will Ethereum scale?

- Lightning Pool

- Shadow Pools

- A LN yield curve

- much more

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Check out the Lightning Pool announcement

Check out the Lightning Pool specs

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Transcript

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0:00.0	So, freaks, it's your boy Marty here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:04.2	I had the immense, immense, immense, immense, immense pleasure of sitting down with Ryan Gentry from Lightning Labs.
0:11.8	Long rip.
0:12.9	Three-hour rip.
0:15.1	Great rip.
0:16.0	Talked about a bunch of stuff.
0:17.2	Started out with Austin.
0:18.6	Moved to the order of operations necessary to fulfill the
0:26.7	dream of a cryptocurrency particular bitcoin proof of work the importance of proof of work specifically
0:34.5	how to scale these protocols efficiently and then lightning we talked a lot
0:40.5	about the lightning network and particularly the product they launched earlier this week lightning pool
0:46.9	which frankly i think is going to shock the market to the upside something that wasn't even on
0:53.8	the top of my mind
0:54.6	of how to apply this technology
0:57.0	and create incentives that incentivize
1:02.3	channel liquidity and easier U.S.
1:06.2	between node operators and users.
1:08.2	I think this is a massive, massive, massive product drop that we just witnessed here with
1:15.2	lightning pool.
1:16.4	Ryan and I jump into it, jump into shadow pools, how all this can be applied, what it
1:20.8	means for the ability to stack sats in a non-custodial fashion using the lightning network,
1:28.9	the yield curve that could potentially uh that will potentially materialize from this product hitting the market
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