Bitcoin Debates Spam & Quantum with Matt Corallo

About this episode

Alex Thorn discusses Bitcoin's development and future challenges with Matt Corallo and macroeconomic conditions with Beimnet Abebe.

Alex Thorn talks with Matt Corallo, Bitcoin developer at Spiral, about debates over Bitcoin’s development path, node implementations, and pathways and possibilities for mitigating the impact of a potential future cryptographically relevant quantum computer. Matt first contributed to Bitcoin Core in 2011 and today focuses on building tools for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about rising inflation expectations, the new Fed chair, and tricky macro conditions. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling BTC, including hedging transactions, for its own proprietary accounts and on behalf of its counterparties. Galaxy also provides services to vehicles that invest in BTC. If the value of such assets increases, those vehicles may benefit, and Galaxy’s service fees may increase accordingly. The valuation in this communication is based on technical, fundamental, and market analysis and not on any formal valuation method. For more information, please refer to Galaxy’s public filings and statements. Cryptocurrencies, including BTC and ZEC, are inherently…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Thorn

Guest: Matt Corallo

Topics covered

• Bitcoin development
• quantum computing
• Lightning Network
• inflation
• macro conditions

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• quantum computer
• Lightning Network
• inflation
• macro conditions
• Galaxy Digital
• BTC
• ZEC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Galaxy Digital, Spiral, Bitcoin Core, Galaxy Trading, Securities and Exchange Commission

Products: Bitcoin, BTC, ZEC

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