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:

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