Fedimint and Nostr with Eric Yakes and Don
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2:02 Different lenses to view Fedimint - custodial hardware, programmability, ecash, privacy 4:34 Fedimint solves community custody - midway between exchange or full self-custody 6:00 What is eCash? 7:11 Digicash - David Chaum 14:39 Eric’s early concern about Fedimint 17:24 bitcoin scalability problems 19:00 scale of Fedimint operations 23:42 programmability use-cases 33:20 Fedimint protocol ecosystem and history 36:10 Fedi’s (the company) potential business 39:45 fiat rails integration 42:40 Fedimint early communities 43:25 Eric Yakes’ interest in this research 46:32 Don and Eric’s bitcoin-focused venture fund 47:25 Nostr relevance 50:55 business models 54:45 Nostr relays 56:40 challenges with Lightning Network 57:40 investing models in the ecosystem 1:05:00 milestones for Fedimint Thanks for reading Curious DK! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.curiousdk.com
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Published 04/05/24
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