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We're currently more focused on non-custodial trading on top of Bitcoin, with solutions such as DLCs for example. We love Bisq and their reputation system, but it's not where we're heading next I guess. We're also curious about what TBD is going to deliver, the tbDEX seemed quite similar to Bisq at first glance. We try to build step by step, the goal is definitely to build a non-custodial / trustless trading platform on top of Bitcoin.

Hey, thanks for your questions!

Regulation is a very important and tough topic to address for Lightning companies. Especially when you offer trading services. With LN Markets, we have wanted to build a platform where you just need your wallet and your keys to authenticate and have direct access to the platform, with lnurl-auth. We think this feature is kinda like magic and we want to keep it. So far, we've flied under the radars, with limited amounts and no promotion of the platform. Meanwhile we are working on regulatory schemes. But our most important objective is to build full non custodial solutions on top of Bitcoin to solve these regulatory points

I'm afraid I'll have to agree with on that. It feels like Europe has decided to play the role of the regulatooooooor. We've seen it with AI. We can't compete with US or China on AI, so we'll try to be the leaders in regulation. And the same is happening for Bitcoin and crypto-assets. There's a joke in France that says, when the administration sees an industry that tries to innovate, first it will tax it. Then it will regulate it. Then, when the administration is sure that nothing moves anymore, it starts subsidizing it. I'm afraid that might happen in France once again. The recent debates at the EU parliament highlighted this approach. First on proof-of-work: some MPs just did not do their homework on this topic, instead relying on false data and easy narrative to try to ban PoW. And regarding KYC for "unhosted wallets". We don't know what it is but we're afraid so we'll push the hardest regulation possible. But this doesn't affect Bitcoin at all. Bitcoin companies just go elsewhere were they feel more welcome, in Switzerland, in the UK, the US, Asia, etc. What I find the most frustrating is that if we made a clear choice to support a neutral protocol like Bitcoin instead of toying with CBDCs ideas that will go nowhere, it would still be time to be a leader in the field..

I wish I knew more about it! We would love to go and meet people there. Fode Diop has announced at Bitcoin Miami the organization of a Bitcoin conference in Ghana next December. I hope we can attend it and find out more. Meanwhile, I don't really talk about it just because I lack sufficient knowledge about it..

Let's start by what I missing the most, and it's very down to earth: a Lightning mobile testnet wallet!! There used to be Eclair but it's deprecated. And SBW testnet was great, but it's no longer available for download. I would find it very useful for testnet.lnmarkets.com. Also, I tried to teach Lightning to students, but wihtout this Testnet wallet it's more complex to make them feel lightning.. Regarding Bitcoin developments, I'm looking forward to more use cases around Taproot and Taro is a perfect example of that! With stablecoins on Lightning, we could list our products in USD. We could also tokenize new types of assets and trade them at lightning speed, and many use cases we can't imagine yet. Of course, this will take some time, but it's exciting times ahead!

Hey, I must confess i was not there, but Victor and Fanis did a great recap on it in our newsletter (see below). On a personal note, I went to Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador, and I found it awesome!! To me, it was the perfect conference size: not too big, so you can take the time to meet and talk to people, not too small so you meet a lot of new people, with people from all around the world, with a good balance between technical and business talks. And witnessing Bitcoin adoption first hand there was an unforgettable experience. Plus we got to surf perfect waves in El Zonte, so I guess this was one my best trips ever!

Our tech team went to Bitcoin 2022 in Miami to shake some hands, bump some fists, listen to the most brilliant bitcoiners, and toss some merch.

The two trends were without a doubt Mining and Lightning. With a dedicated stage and a high proportion of the exposition booths, mining definitely seems to be a thing in the US. Mining companies were everywhere, from hosting facilities to Upstream Data and their amazing BlackBox, which allows you to mine Bitcoin at home while avoiding divorce at the same time.

Lightning-wise, this year conference confirms the ever increasing shift of exchanges embracing Lightning, with Robinhood announcing their Lightning integration a month after Kraken officially announced Lightning-enabled withdrawals. On the main stage, Michael Saylor noted that “[he] think[s] every crypto exchange, if they’re going to remain viable and competitive, they need to build Lightning into their exchange”. Well, we couldn’t agree more!

Jack Mallers’ annoucement of Strike integration into a great proportion of Point of Sale softwares outlined how Bitcoin and Lightning can be used as a more efficient payment network, without even the need to touch bitcoin (the currency) for end users. Interestingly, the news was also the starting point of a very needed debate regarding whether the Lightning Network is ready to welcome thousands of new merchants. As Rene Pickhardt highlighted, Lightning might still be too unreliable as of today, which could result in bad user experience for both merchants and customers.

I fear when it comes to reliability that even with optimally reliable payment flows we still may not be able to compete with what @jackmallers calls the "boomer wazzzzup networks"

The topic of reliability was also addressed during the fascinating Mobile Wallets Bitcoin In Every Pocket panel, where CEO of Breez Roy Sheinfeld highlighted how hard it can be to create an easy-to-use Lightning wallet, notably due to Lightning being a liquidity market still in its infancy, both in terms of liquidity volumes and liquidity management tools.

Last but not least, Lightning Labs announced a new Taproot-based protocol they’ve been working on in the past months that will allow for the creation and transfer of assets on Bitcoin and Lightning. TARO - for Taproot Asset Representation Overlay - leverages the new Taproot script tree to commit data to the Bitcoin chain and track the transfers of arbitrary assets, both fungible and collectibles.

🤝 The conference was also a great place to connect and meet in meatspace our ⚡-friends from Lightning Labs, THNDR, Galoy, Voltage an so many others!

Just stepping in to say congrats on cliche, seems dope!

Soon TM, i need to follow the spec

My heart wants Real Madrid to win so that Karim Benzeam wins ballon d'or. But my reason tells me it's gonna be Machester City this year. Epic semi final ahead!

That's a question for another time and occasion, dear sir.

LN Markets and THNDR are different companies, although good buddies and building on LN.

I took notes for Desiree Dickerson in another AMA.

Appreciate it tho.

Hey, yes Bitcoin options are on Testnet now, so you can check them out here in the tab Options: https://testnet.lnmarkets.com/ Also, if you create a new account, you get 200k sats to test them. We are going mainnet next week! Meanwhile, in order to familiarize yourself with options, we have prepared information, available in English, Spanish and French, here: https://docs.lnmarkets.com/docs/faq/trading_options.html

Let me know if you have any more questions on Bitcoin Options!