SLP367 Pierre Rochard - Lightning Network Comes to Kraken

Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Lead Strategist at Kraken rejoins me on the show to talk about new lightning network developments and how Lightning network is growing:

• Experience of setting up LN at Kraken


• LN for day to day use not being big yet


• Millions of people plugged into Lightning


• Will LN node operation only be for pros?


• Long term fee / security arguments


• Thoughts on stablecoins vs Bitcoin

Links:

• Twitter: @pierre_rochard

Prior episodes:

• SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin as Savings Technology & Number Go Up


• SLP35 Pierre Rochard – Lightning Power Excel Plugin, Lightning Residency


• SLP11 – Bitcoin’s Decentralised Governance, with Pierre Rochard


• SLP3 – Bitcoin Investment Theses with Pierre Rochard

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin


• Hodl Hodl Lend


• Compass Mining


• Braiins.com


• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)


• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

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