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)