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)