The Bitcoin Game #60: Dr. Adam Back Part 2 - Liquid - a podcast by Rob Mitchell
from 2018-11-04T02:52:06
Welcome to episode 60 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part two of my interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. In this episode, we take a deep dive into Liquid, Blockstream's new federated sidechain. There's a lot more to Liquid than I realized, and it's fascinating to hear tons of details about the protocol. I lead us astray with some of my questions, but Dr. Back never fails to drop tons of crypto-knowledge.
And if you missed the first part of my interview, give episode 59 a listen to hear a great Cypherpunk history lesson.
EPISODE LINKS
First half of our interview (The Bitcoin Game #59)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-59-dr-adam-back
Adam Back (Adam3us) on Twitter
https://twitter.com/adam3us
Dr. Back's Info Page
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam
Blockstream
https://blockstream.com
Lightning Network White Paper by Joseph Poon & Thaddeus Dryja
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
Duplex Micropayment Channels by Christian Decker & Roger Wattenhofer
https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/716b955c130e6c703fac336ea17b1670/duplex-micropayment-channels.pdf
ETHZ (where Christian Decker earned his Bitcoin PhD)
https://www.ethz.ch/de.html
Rusty Russell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell
C-Lightning
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
Liquid
https://blockstream.com/liquid
Liquid Assets
https://blockstream.com/2018/07/02/liquid-issued-assets
Confidential Transactions
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/confidential-transactions-how-hiding-transaction-amounts-increases-bitcoin-privacy-1464892525
ERC-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC-20
Counterparty
https://counterparty.io/docs/faq-xcp
UTXO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspent_transaction_output
Bulletproofs
https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf
Tether
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
Proof of Burn
https://www.coinbureau.com/education/proof-of-burn-explained
Public Key vs. Public Address
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3filud/whats_the_difference_between_public_key_and
Lamport Signatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_signature
The Byzantine Generals Problem
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf
Schnorr Signatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnorr_signature
ECDSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm
Denial-of-Service Attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
Tor
https://www.torproject.org
Liquid Block Explorer
https://blockstream.com/2018/08/02/accelerating-liquid-adoption-liquid-block-explorer
NBitcoin by Nicolas Dorier
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/768412/NBitcoin-The-most-complete-Bitcoin-port-Part-Crypt
Green Address Wallet
https://greenaddress.it
KYC Compliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
Paul Sztorc talks about Sidechains, Drivechain, Liquid
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-377-sidechains-drivechains-and-the-apple-store
RootStock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RootStock
Spark Lightning Wallet by Nadav Ivgi
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/spark-new-gui-lightning-wallet-bitcoin-now-available-download
Lightning Splice-In, Splice Out (and more)
https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/day-2-of-the-chaincode-labs-lightning-residency-669aecab5f16
SPV Wallet
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Simplified_Payment_Verification
Neutrino Lite Bitcoin Client
https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino/blob/master/README.md
Lightning Watchtower
https://www.coindesk.com/laolu-building-watchtower-fight-bitcoin-lightning-fraud/
ABCore by Lawrence Nahum (BTC full node on Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore
Hardware Wallet
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet
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