18 Jan 2024 [culture]

Monero Talk interviews 'Drivechain' inventor Paul Sztorc

In this Monero Talk episode1’2, Douglas Tuman3 interviews Paul Sztorc4, the inventor of Drivechain5 and founder of BTC sidechains development firm LayerTwo Labs6:

[..] 99% of all cryptocurrenices are complete and total garbage, but even among the upper echelon of real ones, Monero is in a top percentile - so that it deserves our respect on that basis. (Paul @ 3:58)

Several topics are discussed in this interview, including BTC stagnation, XMR’s potential to become the worlds digital cash protocol, the origin of drivechains, scaling solutions, user adoption, and LN challenges.

To learn more about the guest, visit his blog7.

  1. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=fX6mfZgopEA (video) ↩

  2. https://www.monerotalk.live/bitcoin-drive-chain-creator-paul-sztorc-on-btc-s-stagnation-monero-s-progress-epi-297 (audio) ↩

  3. https://nitter.net/DouglasTuman/ ↩

  4. https://github.com/psztorc/ ↩

  5. https://github.com/drivechain-project/docs, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0300.mediawiki, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0301.mediawiki ↩

  6. https://layertwolabs.com/ ↩

  7. https://www.drivechain.info/ ↩