SLP123 Allen Piscitello - Sidechains & Blockstream Liquid

Allen Piscitello, VP Product of Blockstream joins me to talk about Blockstream Liquid as a new model for inter exchange settlement, and the possibility of building out new financial infrastructure in a way different from the legacy financial system. We talk:

• Tradeoffs and differences between approaches of Lightning, Statechains, and Liquid
• How pegging Bitcoin in and out of Liquid works
• Features that Liquid’s blockchain has e.g. Confidential Transactions and Confidential Assets
• How Liquid can enable much faster inter exchange settlement with different tradeoffs
• How to get started developing on it
• What the future of bitcoin market structure could look like with Liquid adoption

Allen and Blockstream Links:

• Blockstream twitter
• Blockstream website

Sponsor links:

• Kraken
• Unchained Capital
• CypherWheel by CypherSafe
• GiveBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website
• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast