Christian Decker: The Lightning Network and Greenlight Nodes

My guest is Christian Decker one of the architects of the Lightning Network, a Bitcoin OG and a Core Tech engineer at Blockstream. He wrote the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and has been involved in the community since 2009.

Topics:
– Introduction Christian Decker
– The first eleven years
– Growth of the Lightning Network
– Privacy on the Lightning Network, Taproot
– Hurdles for the adoption of Lightning
– Purpose and goals of “Greenlight”
– The future of Lightning and Bitcoin