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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss:

- How Val came to work on LN

- How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit

- What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN

- Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project

- Are we pawns?

- Bitcoin fee elasticity 

- Dev funding

- Stratum v2 

- Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hey there, Freaks, is your boy. Marty Bent here to introduce this week's episode of Tales from the Crypt.

0:05.1

At the immense pleasure of sitting down with Matt O'Dell and two members of the Square Crypto team.

0:11.1

Monster Pod here, two hours, 20 minutes.

0:13.3

We sat down with Matt Corallo, who you freaks know if you've been listening to this podcast for quite some time.

0:17.9

He's been on many times.

0:19.0

This is his fourth appearance, I believe, and he was joined by Val Wallace, who was formerly at Lightning Labs and is now working at

0:26.6

Square Crypto to help build out their lightning development kit, which they announced last week.

0:30.9

If you guys checked out Stefan Lavera's episode with Steve Lee over the weekend, this is a great

0:35.5

follow-up episode to that. We expand on a lot of

0:38.5

the same topics that they talked about as well. Some other things like stratum B2, dev incentives,

0:42.9

and a bunch of other nebulous topics in the Bitcoin world. I think you guys are really going to

0:50.0

like this, especially if you remember Matt's first appearance on the podcast when you get Bitcoin

0:57.0

a 5% chance of succeeding in the future. Again, that was two years ago. We get an update on

1:03.7

that probability in this episode, and I'm very interested to see how you freaks react to that.

1:08.8

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1:11.2

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1:14.1

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1:16.2

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1:20.3

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1:22.9

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1:24.9

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1:25.2

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