SLP461 What Bitcoin Specialises In with Matt Corallo

<p>Matt Corallo of Spiral Bitcoin rejoins me to chat about the purpose of Bitcoin and developments in the space:</p> <ul> <li>Bitcoin contrasted with stablecoins</li> <li>Bitcoin’s specialty</li> <li>Future problems vs today problems</li> <li>Canadian Trucker Bitcoin</li> <li>Donations and adversarial environments</li> <li>Cultural aspects</li> <li>What does it take to have Bitcoin Soft forks again?</li> <li>LDK</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@TheBlueMatt</a></li> <li>Spiral: <a href="https://spiral.xyz/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Spiral.xyz</a></li> <li>LDK: <a href="https://lightningdevkit.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lightningdevkit.org</a><a href="https://lightningdevkit.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">&nbsp;</a></li> <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-October/003307.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Async payment post</a></li> <li>Prior episodes: <a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/257/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Other relevant episodes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/449/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SLP449 James O’Beirne OP_Vault – A New Way to HODL?</a></li> <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/200/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks</a></li> <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/456/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SLP456 Casey Rodarmor What are Ordinals?</a></li> <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/349/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SLP349 Chris Stewart Bitcoin DLCs &am