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The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires)  - The Investor’s Podcast Network

BTC019: Bitcoin's Layer 2 Lightning Network w/ Ryan Gentry (Bitcoin Podcast)

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Business, Education, Investing

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: What is Bitcoin's second layer? Where does lightning labs fit into the second layer What is Lightning pool? How is liquidity managed on the second layer Why does a person have an incentive to run a node Why open channel with other nodes What are the nodes that will benefit the post from opening many channels What are the incentives for people to use lightning What will things like Sphinx chat enable in the future BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Follow Ryan Gentry on Twitter Follow Lightning Labs on Twitter The lightning labs website Sphinx Chat Run an umbrel full node Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. 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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TI-P.

0:02.2

Hey everyone, welcome to our Wednesday release of the podcast where we're talking about Bitcoin.

0:06.5

It brings me great pleasure to bring you this week's episode with Lightning Labs, Ryan Gentry.

0:11.6

Ryan provides some amazing insights about all things happening on Bitcoin's second layer.

0:16.5

Although we've talked about the Lightning Network a few times on the show,

0:19.6

we haven't dedicated an entire discussion to all the things happening on this part of the network,

0:23.9

and what it might mean for further adoption, use cases, and overall market dominance.

0:29.2

This was a fascinating discussion that you won't want to miss, so without further delay,

0:33.2

here's my chat with Ryan Gentry.

0:38.4

You're listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network.

0:44.0

Now for your host, Preston Pish.

0:46.4

Hey, so we got Ryan here. Like we said in the introduction,

1:00.0

Ryan, welcome to the show. Great to have you here.

1:02.4

Thanks for having me really excited about it. I've been looking forward to this.

1:05.9

So Ryan, we've talked about the second layer on our show a couple times,

1:09.9

but we've really never got into it in depth, and you, the folks you work with,

1:15.9

it, Lightning Labs, you guys are the experts at this. I'm curious if you could give us

1:22.0

kind of a one over the world on the Bitcoin second layer Lightning Network,

1:26.5

the impetus of how it got started back in 2017 with the SegWit update.

1:31.3

In general, terms, what it means to you, if you can give us that overview,

1:34.7

I think that would really help lay the foundation of the rest of the conversation that we're going to have together.

1:40.3

Hopefully your listeners are aware that the Bitcoin blockchain is limited,

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