Crypto Voices

Pete Winn: Fedimints Revisited

Crypto Voices: Episode 162 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Alec Harris's havenX: https://thehavenx.com/ ...

2024-01-24

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Crypto Voices: Episode 162




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Alec Harris's havenX: https://thehavenx.com/




Matthew, Alec & Michel talk with Pete Winn, Bitcoin educator extraordinaire. Pete worked formerly at Fedi, the company, as well as contributing to the open source Fedimint, and he is the founder of the educational portal "Bitcoin for Humans." We discuss the amazing benefits at a scale that Fedimints can bring to Bitcoin, as well as some of its criticisms and risks.




Contents


00:00:00 Intro


00:04:21 What is Fedimint?


00:13:13 Regulators & Fedimint


00:21:00 Regulating Bitcoin


00:22:09 Protection over Fedimint


00:27:43 Criticism over Fedimint


00:36:13 Lighting Network


00:41:17 Bitcoin for Humans


00:45:30 Scaling and Fedimint


00:49:10 Bitcoin's Fees


00:52:28 Alec's Philosophical Question


00:59:11 Fedimint's Stability Pool


01:06:48 UTXO and the Future


01:09:09 Fedimint and Payment


01:14:43 Closing Thoughts




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Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris


Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/




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