📌 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