Tadge Dryja and Lightning History and everything else - Episode 31

Tadge Dryja chats with us about writing the Lightning Network paper and working in the Bitcoin space.

We discussed:

• Could blocks be bigger? (0:59)




• Paper: On the instability of Bitcoin without the block reward (9:49)


• Serving billions with Lightning (10:40)




• The state of the debate when writing the Lightning Network White Paper (13:35)




• Would Lightning be possible without Segwit? (17:20)




• Looking in from outside on a project you started (18:54)


• Trimmed HTLCs: Sending 1 sat vs 100,000 sats (22:02)


• Limitations of the Lightning network (25:31)




• Do high fees break lightning? (28:24)




• LN-Symmetry (Eltoo) (31:50)




• SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT (33:20)




• Why are soft forks so hard? (34:15)


• What’s your wish list (hardfork wishlist wiki, softfork wishilist wiki) for protocol changes? (36:18)




• coinpools




• Bitcoin needs to become more usable (37:54)


• Tadge's thoughts on Education (44:17)




• MAS.S62: Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design


• Dynamics of working on Bitcoin (47:16)