Alex Leishman on Lightning Scaling

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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