EPISODE · Oct 31, 2024 · 53 MIN
Bitcoin Optech: SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast
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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal. Why a deep dive? (0:40) Proposal overview (1:58) Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13) What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42) Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05) Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22) Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21) Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11) Decker–Wattenhofer relative lock times impact on users (38:44) Discussion of trustless non-P2P protocol structure (40:01) Contrasting SuperScalar with Ark (44:08) Implementation discussion (48:44)
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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal. Why a deep dive? (0:40) Proposal overview (1:58) Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13) What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42) Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05) Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22) Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21) Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11) Decker–Wattenhofer relative lock times impact on users (38:44) Discussion of trustless non-P2P protocol structure (40:01) Contrasting SuperScalar with Ark (44:08) Implementation discussion (48:44)
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