POV Crypto Episode 26 — Lightning Network Economics with Nik Bhatia

Christian brings on Nik Bhatia, an economist specializing in interests rates, to discuss the economics of the Lightning Network.

Nik Bhatia is famous for his The Time Value of Bitcoin article, as well as numerous other content pieces surrounding Bitcoin and the Lightning Network

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Topics Include

• How to make passive income with the Lightning Network
• How the Lightning Network reflects double-entry bookkeeping.
• The interaction with Lightning Network and the Bitcoin blockchain
• The fee market
• Reasons to create or shutdown a channel
• Current experiments underway to measure the average interest rate to Channel creators
• Current experiments underway to measure the average interest rate to Channel creators

And more!

Episode 21: The Case for Ether as Money

Episode 24: On Maximalism

Episode 22: Why Ether is Bad Money

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