Legendary guest Dr. Adam Back updates his Bitcoin observations.

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Legendary guest Dr. Adam Back, cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, gives his latest observations of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

About the episode.

Resources

• Dr. Adam Back
• Liquid
• Confidential transaction episodes
• Greg Maxwell
• Confidential Assets
• Homomorphic encryption
• Bitcoin gold
• Atomic swaps
• MAST
• Tim Ruffing
• Switch commitments
• BTCPay
• Cypherpunk

Show Notes

• 00:00:32 - What interesting things are going on in Bitcoin today?
• 00:02:05 - Confidential Assets – What are they?
• 00:09:05 - Why Bitcoin security is very difficult to replicate.
• 00:10:45 - Why the fourth network effect of miners is so important.
• 00:11:53 - How useful side chains could be.
• 00:21:03 - Gold vs. the Dollar vs. Bitcoin and the term “extensibility”.
• 00:24:38 - What Dr. Back is most excited about for the future.
• 00:29:50 - Dr. Back explains the potential opportunity for third layer solutions.
• 00:30:15 - Dr. Back’s word of advice for listeners.