SLP123 Allen Piscitello - Sidechains & Blockstream Liquid
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Allen Piscitello, VP Product of Blockstream joins me to talk about Blockstream Liquid as a new model for inter exchange settlement, and the possibility of building out new financial infrastructure in a way different from the legacy financial system. We talk:

• Tradeoffs and differences between approaches of Lightning, Statechains, and Liquid

• How pegging Bitcoin in and out of Liquid works

• Features that Liquid’s blockchain has e.g. Confidential Transactions and Confidential Assets

• How Liquid can enable much faster inter exchange settlement with different tradeoffs

• How to get started developing on it

• What the future of bitcoin market structure could look like with Liquid adoption

Allen and Blockstream Links:

• Blockstream twitter)

• Blockstream website)

Sponsor links:

• Kraken)

• Unchained Capital)

• CypherWheel) by CypherSafe

• GiveBitcoin)

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website)

• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera)

• Subscribe to the podcast)