WCN Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 2 - Part 3)
summary
Live discussion of what actually works now: SegWit activation plus active Lightning interoperability tests and live micropayments, concrete expectations for channels and Lightning multi-hop recirculation use cases; Blockstream’s satellite already streams blocks from three birds with a receiver cost claimed near $20 dish so full-node access is possible without Internet; Liquid sidechain is in beta with integrations at a dozen exchanges for fast confidential transfers; mining realities (12.5 BTC block, typical pool 2% fee) and replay‑protection risks around BCH/2x are covered.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:09Bitcoin scaling and SegWit
- 3:17Future of Lightning Network
- 9:01Lightning challenges
- 13:33Blockstream Satellite explained
- 18:13Liquid sidechain updates
- 20:38Bitcoin Cash controversy
- 34:39Bitcoin 2x hard fork impact
- 40:15Slush Pool introduction
- 42:25Mining pools explained
- 51:48Empty blocks and ASIC boost
- 56:49Mining pools future
- 1:01:19SegWit2x stance
- 1:07:05Closing and Q&A
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