Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today's conversation is with Scott Millar, founder of SideSwap. SideSwap is one of a growing list of companies building out financialand capital market applications on top of Bitcoin. The platform offers a decentralized peer to peer way to trade assets on the Liquid Network. Including security tokens like the Blockstream Mining Note. SideSwap also makes it easy to peg-in and peg-out of the Liquid Network, meaning you can easily flip between Liquid Bitcoin and Bitcoin point. If you find the conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe and share.
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2:14 Why build on Bitcoin?
3:32 Colored Coins protocol
5:32 How Atomic Swaps work
8:00 The spectrum of decentralized finance
8:52 What SideSwap is focused on
12:14 Lessons from previous Bitcoin cycles
12:57 The importance of Bitcoin based capital markets
17:26 Issuing securities as bearer assets
19:35 The tokenization of securities
20:37 Transfer restricted asset technology
25:12 Differences between CEX & DEX
26:19 Private swaps on SideSwap
27:22 What does PEGx do?
31:46 Voting with Liquid digital securities
35:48 Dealing with regulators when facilitating trades