Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're speaking with long-time Liquid contributor and founder of Vulpem Ventures, Marco Argentieri. Marco is a prolific software engineer and entrepreneur, and is behind a number of Liquid tools and projects, including Marina wallet, T-dex, Fuji Money, and Liquid Taxi. In this episode, we touched on the importance of covenants, and discussed various lBitcoin ayer-2 solutions, like Liquid, Lightning, and Ark. We also discussed what the future holds for Bitcoin and Liquid and how the current Bitcoin narrative of digital gold could evolve going forward. If you found the conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe, and share this conversation with your network.
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02:09 The power of the Bitcoin Italia community
03:14 The goals of Vulpem Ventures
05:42 Building Bitcoin layer-2 tooling
08:08 Reasons for building on the Liquid Network
09:39 Common Liquid misconceptions
12:55 Using layer-2s to stack bitcoin
14:26 Bitcoin layer-1 scaling conversations
15:51 Sharing UTXOs utilizing covenants
17:26 The evolving narratives of Bitcoin
18:45 Bitcoin volatility’s effect on use cases
21:06 The effect of higher L1 fees
23:29 The difference between Elements and Liquid
24:38 Atomic swaps with Banco by Vulpem
28:07 Getting started in Bitcoin development
31:36 Bitcoin in 2024