Preston Pysh interviews Alex Leishman, the Founder of River Financial, about whether the lightning network can scale at a level that supports global finance.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- A Bitcoin ETF and what it means.
- Is the competition from other domains causing the SEC to approve an ETF?
- Is there concern with Bitcoins from ETFs being used to create yield inside the ETFs?
- Is Bitcoin scalable with just Lightning?
- Is the Bitcoin layer 2 Ark Proposal a viable solution for Layer 2?
- Is AI something that needs bitcoin layer 2 to scale?
- Explain the Lightning API at River.
- Why did you found River – what was the value proposition?
- What was life like at River with all the “crypto crackdown” happening?
- What are the incentives for people to own their own rig and mine bitcoin versus just owning it?
- Rapid fire: get to know Alex.






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