MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network
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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network, the home of tBTC, the only decentralized and permissionless Bitcoin bridge to Ethereum. He is a co-founder of NuCypher, which combined with Keep Network in the first-ever decentralized network merger to form Threshold.
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- 0:00 Introduction: MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network
- 1:34 What is Threshold Network and tBTC?
- 2:36 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC)
- 4:48 The Risks of the Process
- 8:52 The Permissions
- 11:22 T - Native Token for Threshold Network
- 16:19 2 ways for a Node to become Malicious or just not function correctly
- 19:20 Why would a wallet not be healthy?
- 20:25 Before Threshold Network
- 23:24 Bitcoin as a Distributed System
- 24:02 Alternative Bitcoin Bridges
- 25:16 Bitcoin Dominating Centralized Model and Decentralized Model
- 29:56 Reaction to USDC depeg
- 33:15 Banking is about Maturity Transformation
- 39:59 What are you seeing in the middle of the SVB Collapse?
- 43:33 The Government and Crypto Projects/Companies Getting into Banking
- 46:35 What People Should Learn From the Things Happened Last Year
- 48:46 The Role of T Token for the Decentralized Bitcoin Bridge
- 51:07 The Function of T Token
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