I recently spoke at Bitcoin Seoul 2024 and here are some interviews with some of the speakers:
- Calvin Kim on utreexo
- Gloria Zhao on Bitcoin Core and mempool
- Laolu on Taproot Assets and covenants
- Saifedean on Central Banking and tax cattle
- Obi Nwosu on Fedi
- Jimmy Song on Bitcoin in Korea
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Calvin Kim on importance of Bitcoin conferences
(01:51) - Simplifying Utreexo
(03:31) - What is Utreexod?
(04:51) - Will node providers support Utreexo?
(06:38) - Gloria Zhao on BIP431 (Truc)
(08:15) - Implications of Truc
(12:26) - What is mempool cluster?
(14:08) - P2P encryption on Bitcoin core V27.0
(15:22) - Upcoming developments on Bitcoin core
(18:04) - Sponsors(20:13) - Laolu (Roasbeef) on Taproot assets
(25:29) - LSP Challenges on issuing stablecoins
(28:21) - Views on covenants
(31:51) - Ensuring protocol safety while enabling Opcodes
(34:33) - Saifedean’s views on Bitcoin Seoul 2024
(34:44) - Central Bank behaving like a private organisation
(40:21) - ‘The Keynesian Voodoo’
(46:35) - All roads lead to Bitcoin
(48:26) - Sponsors
(50:45) - Latest developments at Fedi with Obi Nwosu
(52:23) - Role of the Fedimint Guardians
(54:40) - Fees on Fedi
(56:18) - Fedi’s Social backup and recovery model
(58:26) - Risks of getting rugged
(1:01:23) - Fedi is trust-reduced
(1:03:11) - Jimmy Song’s views on Bitcoin Seoul 2024
(1:04:18) - Views on Bitcoin’s Technical developments
(1:05:46) - Savings culture among Koreans & role of Bitcoin
(1:09:16) - Outro
Links:
- X: x.com/saifedean)
- Saifedean episode: https://saifedean.com/podcast/222-central-banking-works)
- X: x.com/glozow)
- Bitcoin review club: https://bitcoincore.reviews/
- BIP 431: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0431.mediawiki)
- X: x.com/obi )
- Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/)
- X: x.com/roasbeef)
- Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/)
- X: https://x.com/kcalvinalvinn)
- Utreexod beta release: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/5GyV9af9lv4?pli=1)
- X: x.com/jimmysong)
Sponsors:
Swan.com) (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com) (code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links:
Follow me on X: @stephanlivera)