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Jeff Booth
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Entrepreneur, Tech Leader, Author of The Price of Tomorrow - Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future, GP @EgoDeathCapital

I’ve had some really great comments on this new pod!

And can’t wait to see and spend some time with those coming to Bitcoin Atlantis!

https://youtu.be/45YiWmK70WU?si=DyYy0RX0gZWReTOK

Really looking forward to this!!

Can be self custodial - Like Breez, and allow liquidity in larger LSP’s

The difference (imo) is that the trade off is some centralization of LSP’s because of efficiency, while keeping them honest through the free market. (Ie - if they raise prices too high, people flee to competing solutions.

Fair - but some trade offs are required to scale to 8 billion people. If you realize that the builders of those solutions think similar to you, (Bitcoin maxi’s) you can imagine how they are creating checks and balances to ensure it is fully backed to bitcoin.

Think of it as the highway that connects the cities. (Cities are fedimints) Early builders were building one way back end gravel roads. (Liquidity demands that create choke points on the one way roads).

That problem is being solved!

Expect the same or higher FUD on lightning as you have seen on #Bitcoin layer 1. Ie - Follow the money!!

As more people realize how attacking Bitcoin first layer only made it more decentralized and secure, it makes perfect sense that capturing the 2nd layer also moves into focus.

Imagine telling people that Lightning will not scale when it has grown ~ 20,000 % over the last couple of years. It IS scaling and becoming easier to use as companies building on it (like Breez) solve problems that bring on the masses.

Other scaling solutions like Fedimint, integrate and scale further.

Super exciting times in as the builders - build.

Yes, still things to work on but saying lightning is dead, is akin to saying Bitcoin was dead for the last 14 years.

Ps - on a personal note, I use it every day (as many of you do on Nostr) and it seems to be “scaling” just fine.