Scaling Bitcoin Privately with John Light

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“If it doesn’t have privacy then it’s not worth using, and if it’s not easy to use then people aren’t going to use it, and so we won’t need scale.”
— John Light

John Light is a bitcoin researcher working on product at Sovryn and previously the ZK-Rollup Research Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss rollups on Bitcoin, privacy & scaling and scaling bitcoin in a self sovereign way.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:13:39 Privacy & Zero Knowledge
00:27:10 Ensuring 21 million
00:32:59 Bitcoin development; ZK tradeoffs
00:43:54 Softforks & extension blocks
00:49:04 Bitcoin research; next steps

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