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Feb 6, 2024 32 min

Developing Bitcoin Commerce with Layer-2s and Vulpem Ventures featuring Marco Argentieri - Blockstream Talk #37

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Follow Marco Follow Vulpem Ventures Follow Fuji Money Follow Jesse Knutson Follow the Liquid Network 🧑‍💻 Learn more about Vulpem Ventures 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network 🗻 Try out Fuji Money ⛴️ Download Marina Wallet 02:09 The power of the Bitcoin Italia community 03:14 The goals of Vulpem Ventures 05:42 Building Bitcoin layer-2 tooling 08:08 Reasons for building on the Liquid Network 09:39 Common Liquid misconceptions 12:55 Using layer-2s to stack bitcoin 14:26 Bitcoin layer-1 scaling conversations 15:51 Sharing UTXOs utilizing covenants 17:26 The evolving narratives of Bitcoin 18:45 Bitcoin volatility’s effect on use cases 21:06 The effect of higher L1 fees 23:29 The difference between Elements and Liquid 24:38 Atomic swaps with Banco by Vulpem 28:07 Getting started in Bitcoin development 31:36 Bitcoin in 2024 📱 Download the Blockstream App 🔑 Buy a Jade hardware wallet 🧑‍💻 Follow Blockstream 🧠 Follow Blockstream Research 🌊 Explore the Liquid Network ⚡️ Build on Core Lightning

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Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're speaking with long-time Liquid contributor and founder of Vulpem Ventures, Marco Argentieri. Marco is a prolific software engineer and entrepreneur, and is behind a number of Liquid tools and projects, including Marina wallet, T-dex, Fuji Money, and Liquid Taxi. In this episode, we touched on the importance of covenants, and discussed various lBitcoin ayer-2 solutions, like Liquid, Lightning, and Ark. We also discussed what the future holds for Bitcoin and Liquid and how the current Bitcoin narrative of digital gold could evolve going forward. If you found the conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe, and share this conversation with your network.

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