Blockstream Talk

Advancing Bitcoin Education using Base58 and Bitcoin++ with Lisa Neigut - Blockstream Talk #35

Episode Summary

Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today we're speaking with Lisa Neigut, a Core Lightning developer who also manages a number of Bitcoin educational projects, including Base 58 a Bitcoin protocol school and Bitcoin Plus Plus, a developer focused conference series. This is the third part of a recent Lightning series, following up on conversations with Rusty Russell and Christian Decker. This series is helpful and understanding Greenlight, how Blockstream is working to drive Lightning network adoption on both the user side and the retailer side, but also how Bitcoin's major layer-2s Liquid and Lightning can be used together for an even more powerful product. Enjoy the conversation let us know what you think in the comments below.

Episode Notes

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Follow Base58

Follow Bitcoin++
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🎓 Visit the Base58 website
🇦🇷 Catch the next Bitcoin ++ conferenece
⛈️ Follow Core Lightning
🧑‍💻 Open an issue in the Core Lightning GitHub 
🏗️ Learn more about Core Lightning in BuildOnL2
👋 Ask devs a question in the Discord
⚙️ Get technical support in Telegram
📝 Core Lightning Documentation Portal

02:13 Starting work on the Lightning Network

03:34 Differentiated features of Core Lightning

06:24 Working on “Lightning v2”

08:13 Greenlight: Lightning node as a service

11:53 The benefits of non-custodial architecture

12:41 Starting work on open-source projects

13:57 Recruitment for open-source projects

15:14 Marketing Bitcoin development opportunities

20:29 Lightning FUD

22:22 BTC Plus Plus developer conference

26:53 Base58: A Bitcoin protocol school

29:04 Boltz.Exchange: Liquid and Lightning swaps

32:6 New Bitcoin layer-2 protocols

34:40 Opcodes explained

37:32 Lightning Network mainstream adoption

43:46 BTC Plus Plus and Base58