📌 Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
02:26 – Tad’s Early Bitcoin Journey
13:21 – Can We Do That on Bitcoin?
19:12 – Scaling Bitcoin: The Lightning Network Paper
23:01 – Founding Lightning Labs & Early Challenges
27:11 – Joining MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative
30:11 – DLCs, Stablecoins & the UTXO Model
36:31 – Leaving Lightning Labs & Node Implementations
50:45 – UTXO, Chain State & Data Pruning
59:43 – Exploring Accumulators and UTreeXO
01:08:39 – Quantum Security, the Lifeboat Proposal & Future Directions