Blockstream Talk

Mining, STOs on Liquid & El Salvador's Bitcoin Opportunity with Samson Mow - Blockstream Talk #2

Jan3@Excellion2:17 What is going on in China? Is mining done for good? 3:10 Can Chinese investors still buy and sell Bitcoin? 4:46 How important is Chinese retail to Bitcoin price appreciation? 5:26 What was the motivati...

2021-09-14

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2:17 What is going on in China? Is mining done for good? 

3:10 Can Chinese investors still buy and sell Bitcoin? 

4:46 How important is Chinese retail to Bitcoin price appreciation? 

5:26 What was the motivation behind China’s latest crackdown? 

7:06 Is the mining hardware supply chain at risk? 

9:06 Where has Chinese hashrate migrated to? How long will it take to recover? 

10:58 Security Tokens will drive the reformation of traditional capital markets 

13:02 Trading venues, technology, and regulations are coming together for STOs 

15:42 There seems to be a groundswell of interest in NFTs, how is Liquid being applied to NFTs? 

18:50 Is El Salvador the first domino for dollarized economies? 

20:58 Bitcoin is turning out to be a global growth driver 

20:25 What is the state of the Lightning Network at the moment and what does it need to grow? 

24:06 Within all the things that you’re involved in, what excites you the most?


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