4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.
Check out Nik's writing on LNRR:
https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Freaks? It's your boy Marty Ben. I hope you are all living well right now. |
| 0:06.2 | Here to introduce this week's episode with Nick Batia. Nick and I sat down, had an incredible |
| 0:11.0 | conversation about traditional financial reference rates about his theory around Lightning Network |
| 0:17.7 | reference rates, his history, producing rap albums, and a couple other |
| 0:23.9 | fun topics. |
| 0:24.7 | I think this episode is a great piggyback on the episode with Parker Lewis from a couple |
| 0:28.8 | weeks ago in which we dove into Fed Policy. |
| 0:31.7 | Nick and I sort of built on that talking more specifically about interest rates. |
| 0:37.2 | Before we hop into this episode, |
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