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Mr Obnoxious

The Truth About Bitcoin Scaling with niftynei - WBD829

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

niftynei is a CoreLN contributor and a Bitcoin educator. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin education, Lightning development, sovereignty, ecash, ossification, covenants, time-locks, tokens, and zero-knowledge tech.

Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-truth-about-bitcoin-scaling

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Scaling is a hard problem. You come back to consensus. Who needs to be in

0:05.9

consensus? Who gets to participate in consensus? If you can't participate in

0:10.0

consensus like that, are you really a self-soverer

0:12.7

member of that particular ecosystem.

0:14.7

Hello there, happy Friday.

0:16.7

Hope you all doing well.

0:18.0

Maybe we all have an amazing weekend ahead planned.

0:21.0

Weather here at Beth is beautiful right now absolutely beautiful

0:25.0

so I'm looking forward to it also my football team around Bedford the men's side

0:28.8

there are back tomorrow in training it's their first training session back head of the new season.

0:34.4

So it's going to be very cool. Excited to get back down to the club, see the players,

0:38.9

meet some of the new players, head of the season kicking off in August. Very, very cool. Anyway, welcome to the What

0:45.7

Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by the Massive Legends of Iran, formerly

0:49.7

known as Iris Energy. Iran is using their next generation data centers to power the future of

0:54.6

Bitcoin mining and AI using 100% renewable energy. IRN remains the same business but

1:00.9

the same goals now just with a different name. I'm your host

1:04.2

Peter McCormack and today we have Lisa Nygu aka Nifty Nye on the show for the

1:09.1

first time. That's a weird one. I thought at least had been on the show before.

1:13.2

Definitely interviewed her before.

1:14.8

Figured out that was something we'd done for somebody else.

1:17.3

But if you don't know Nifty, she is an absolute badass.

1:20.7

She's worked at Blockstream. she is a core LN contributor, has Base 58, a Bitcoin education program, and she also hosts BTC Plus,

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