"Often overlooked is the importance of interoperability between not only the second-layer protocol and Bitcoin but the layer-2 protocols themselves. A second layer, where end-users can leverage several protocols together and move seamlessly between them, creates a healthier, more resilient financial system and an overall better user experience—both essential for mass adoption."— ⁠Chase Smith Today we shift back to the current layer 2 protocols to take note of the tools and ideas around making the entire ecosystem interoperable. How do we make Fedimint, Liquid, Lightning, and Bitcoin on chain all work seamlessly to give the user the greatest benefits of each without needing the complications Check out the original article at : Blockstream - ⁠Increasing Interoperability Between Bitcoin’s Second-Layer Protocols Follow Guy and Chase on Nostr. Find out about the Breez SDK and Making Every App a Lightning App in preparation of our chat with Roy: Read_732 - We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps [Roy Sheinfeld] - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify A great way to support the show is to check out our amazing sponsors: 9% off the Coldcard with code BITCOINAUDIBLE, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nodeless.io/guy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------------------------- “The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.” – Richard Feynman --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"The headroom there isn’t unlimited — expect it to show up as fee pressure and backlogs and less ability to quickly resolve transaction storms. And that will in turn make it hard and expensive for people with small stacks to continue to do self-custody on the main chain. At that point, acquiring new high value users means pricing out existing low value users." — Anthony Towns It's officially Sidechain Week! Because today Anthony Towns takes us through an thought experiment that sets our current best understanding of the scaling problem and the best technological path we have to solve it, as a foundation to see what a Bitcoin future with billions of users really looks like, and what we should expect in the transition to that future. A great piece that will be very useful for our continued discussion of the tools we have to conquer this problem. Check out the original article at : Putting the B in BTC Links: - Anthony Towns Twitter - Guy's Take #55 - On the Economics of CTV Batching, & Where I was Wrong - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify - Want to get a head start on a coming read? Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes (2023) - Protocol Design - Delving Bitcoin - Towns' piece on what the key values of Bitcoin are: Inamerrata » Blog Archive » Zeitgeist. A huge thanks to our sponsors, and don't forget to check out the offers for the listeners of this show! 9% off the Coldcard with code BITCOINAUDIBLE, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nodeless.io/guy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------------------------- "Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how." — Jordan B. Peterson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message