reply on: I'm Romain Rouphael, Co-Founder of LN Markets AMA \ stacker news ~bitcoin

pull down to refresh

533 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xtr 13 Apr 2022 \ on: I'm Romain Rouphael, Co-Founder of LN Markets AMA bitcoin

What are your top 3 things on the roadmap for LN Markets?
Do you see a future where LN Markets is getting into other markets than Bitcoin?
How did you get into Bitcoin and LN?
Current top 3 artists you're listening to right now?

221 sats \ 3 replies \ @romain_rouphael OP 13 Apr 2022

Top 3 things are: Bitcoin Options on Mainnet / Deposits and Withdrawals on-chain / Non custodial Option Trading with DLCs + we a fun surprise coming next week! If you want other stuff, just let us know!
It depends whether it's Bitcoin the infrastructure or bitcoin the asset. I don't see a future where we build elsewhere than on Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin is the best collateral in the world, with the highest level of security, 2 very important features when you want to build a trading platform. Regarding listing other assets, we don't see it as a priority right now (and we did not have that much request from users on it so far..), but it may change in the future, for example with stablecoins on Lightning. I think tokenized stocks is a fascinating topic, but it also brings other complexities..
I lived in Hong Kong and I stumbled upon an ATM Bitcoin machine, around 2014. When I realized that using Bitcoin, you could send money all over the world, at low fees, in 10 min, I was blown away. And when I started digging and realized that all this was built on open source code, on a P2P network, with its own governance system I started to realize this we had something completely new that could change the world. I started getting the details of Bitcoin with Princeton course and when I came back in France in 2015, I knew I wanted to dedicate myself to it. With my co-founders, we have a finance background, so we started doing consulting / development for financial institutions on this topic. And when Lightning emerged, we had this idea to build instant trading on top of it, which became LN Markets.
3 albums I listen to most are: The Strokes - The Adults are talking / Baby Keem - The melodic blue / DJ Mehdi - Lucky boy at night. And of course French classics like Gainsbourg, Air, etc.