Scaling Bitcoin Privately with John Light - WBD780
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Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
John Light is a bitcoin researcher working on product at Sovryn and previously the ZK-Rollup Research Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss rollups on Bitcoin, privacy & scaling and scaling bitcoin in a self sovereign way.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If it doesn't have privacy, then it's not worth using and if it's not easy to use, then |
| 0:07.0 | then it's not worth using and if it's not easy to use then people aren't going to use it and so we won't need scale. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello there happy Wednesday hope you're all doing well. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm going to be heading out to Madeira tomorrow heading out to Bitcoin Atlantis. |
| 0:22.0 | Looks like it's going to be an incredible event. |
| 0:24.0 | I am going to have a rail Bedford booth there in the exhibit hall, |
| 0:27.0 | so hopefully going to see some of you there. |
| 0:29.0 | Can I say hello? |
| 0:30.0 | If not, let's grab a beer. |
| 0:31.0 | Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends of iron |
| 0:35.3 | formerly known as iris energy iron is using next generation data centers to power the future of |
| 0:40.5 | Bitcoin mining and AI using 100% renewable energy and Iran remains the same business |
| 0:46.4 | same goals they just now have got a different name. Anyway I'm your host Peter McCormack and today |
| 0:52.2 | we have John Light on the show to get into |
| 0:54.1 | roll-ups on Bitcoin. Now I first heard about roll-ups on Bitcoin with Eric Wall |
| 0:58.4 | quite some time ago to be honest and I wasn't really sure what was happening with it since. |
| 1:03.0 | But since then we've been going down the rabbit hole of scaling, |
| 1:06.5 | Bitcoin in the most sovereign way possible and the idea of Rollups has come up quite a bit. |
| 1:10.6 | So John Light has fronted the ZK Roll-Up research for the Human Rights |
| 1:14.3 | Foundation we thought he'd be a great person to get on the show and run through |
| 1:17.9 | this with us so this one is pretty technical and I'm not sure where I stand on it |
| 1:21.8 | just yet but I hope you enjoy it anyway and if you got any questions about this any feedback then please do hit me up is hello or what Bitcoin did dot com |
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