Bitcoin Seoul 2024 Interviews with Saifedean, Jimmy Song, Laolu, Obi, glozow and Calvin SLP581 Stephan Livera Podcast

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



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