Onboarding the Masses to Lightning with Desiree Dickerson - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Christian Keroles sits down with Desiree Dickerson the VP of Business Operations at Lightning Labs and cofounder of MintGox! Des is deep in the trenches of Lightning and pioneering adoption of the bitcoin stack inside the gaming ecosystem. Dickerson believes that both game creators and players unlock massive value by integrating satoshis (Bitcoin) into their games. Des sees lightning as the perfect avenue for scalable and easy bitcoin integration into gaming for a completely revolutionary experience.

With the founding of MintGox, Desiree and several other sought out to create a community and tournament to demonstrate the power and use cases that are unlocked by integrating lightning with video games. MintGox and Zebedee will be sponsoring and hosting the Bitcoin 2021 Esports Arena which will feature Thunder Games, Satoshi’s Games, Christian Moss, CSGO all powered by Zebedee’s Lightning SDK.

Christian and Des discuss why Lightning and Bitcoin are important and why their rise is inevitable. Dickerson is moved by the idea of fair and transparent financial access for the world and making that available to as many people as possible. Des believes that games as well as other forms of earning Bitcoin will push people to onboard directly to the lightning network. Start ups like Strike are great examples of how lightning infrastructure enables large and small players alike to tap into a global permissionless payments network that yields an unstoppable advantage over proprietary competitors like Paypal and CashApp.

Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Desiree Dickerson.

Follow Desiree Dickerson @dickerson_des
Follow MintGox @MintGox

Learn more about the MinGox Esports Arena:
https://b.tc/conference/mintgox-esports-arena

Timestamps:

0:00 - 4:18 Intro
4:18 - 6:55 Introduction to Desiree
6:55 - 14:36 Why is Desiree putting so much time into lightning and gaming?
14:36 - 17:20 Gaming has become ubiquitous
17:20 - 20:30 Onboarding people with lightning
20:30 - 24:03 The best way the community can onboard the masses
24:03 - 26:50 How lightning is rebuilding the internet
26:50 - 38:54 The Strike app
38:54 - 30:06 The Fold app
30:06 - 31:42 The Zebedee team
31:52 - 35:30 Playing CS:GO with infuse
35:30 - 36:23 Improving the UX for lightning
36:23 - 40:20 What Zebedee is doing at Bitcoin 2021
40:20 - 41:18 The energy leading up to The Bitcoin Conference
41:18 - 41:53 The 'blockchain not bitcoin' narrative is dead
41:53 - 43:15 What is Desiree most excited for in Miami?
43:15 - 44:43 Tony Hawk's appearance at The Bitcoin Conference
44:43 - 46:09 Elizabeth Stark and Lyn Alden's appearance at The Bitcoin Conference
46:09 - 47:22 Meeting bitcoiners at the conference
47:22 - 48:20 Last words of encouragement
48:20 - 50:39 Closing comments

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