S5 E9: Matthew Haywood on the Liquid Sidechain & His Work at Blockstream

Published: June 23, 2020, 10:46 p.m.

b"Matthew Haywood has been a software developer for 20 years, and has worked for Blockstream since 2017. As product manager of Liquid Securities, he understand the dynamics and tradeoffs of Blockstream's sidechain project and explains them accordingly. ----------------------------------- Time stamps: 1:00 \\u2013 Introduction 2:20 \\u2013 How we met in person for the first time 3:10 \\u2013 Product manager of securities on Liquid? 5:00 \\u2013 Working with Nopara73 on an early version of Wasabi Wallet 6:30 \\u2013 Matthew Haywood\\u2019s experience as a software developer and involvement in Bitcoin as a writer for Brave New Coin 12:05 \\u2013 What is the Liquid Network and what does it do? 16:30 \\u2013 The use cases of Liquid and Lightning 18:30 \\u2013 What should get stored on the blockchain and what should be moved to a second layer or sidechain? 28:50 \\u2013 Bitcoin as free speech money with privacy features 33:20 \\u2013 Is there a scaling war going on? 37:55 \\u2013 Liquid on the Lightning Network 47:40 \\u2013 Atomic swaps between BTC and L-BTC 50:30 \\u2013 Welsh people are nice 51:30 \\u2013 Everyone is mean on Twitter, but nicer in person 56:20 \\u2013 Automagically as a word 58:20 \\u2013 Bitcoin Takeover was initially meant to be called Bitcoin in Politics (BIP) 59:00 \\u2013 Zack Voell and Francis Pouliot have also graduated in political science 1:00:00 \\u2013 Bitcoin and politics 1:06:00 \\u2013 The fact that we\\u2019re divided perpetuates the fiat system 1:10:00 \\u2013 Career politicians wouldn\\u2019t survive in the private sector 1:15:10 \\u2013 Hyperbitcoinization and the importance on sovereignty 1:18:40 \\u2013 Why bother with sovereignty when you can use Coinbase? 1:25:00 \\u2013 The security of early Bitcoin adopters 1:27:30 \\u2013 Is Blockstream evil? 1:33:00 \\u2013 How to follow Matthew Haywood on Twitter"