Stephan Livera | Updates on Ark with Tiero SLP584 @StephanLivera | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Official Podcast Episode: stephanlivera.com/584

Tiero of Ark Labs joins me on the show to discuss the latest with Ark. We get into:
How Ark has changed since initial proposal
clARK - covenant-less ARK
Trade offs to make clARK happen
Which covenants would help vs what is ideal for Ark
Ark on Liquid
Capital requirements and costs
Fiatcoins
Nostr

Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(01:37) - What is Ark? ELI5 version
(05:42) - Tradeoffs of scaling payments
(07:41) - Interchangeably using LN & Ark under the hood
(10:52) - Updates on Ark
(13:57) - What are out-of-round payments?
(17:48) - Trade Offs of out-of-round payments
(19:45) - The fee structure in Ark
(21:39) - Sponsors
(24:15) - Who runs the ASPs?
(28:55) - ‘Congestion control’ with Ark
(33:06) - The role of covenants with Ark
(39:44) - Ark on Liquid
(41:20) - Sponsors
(43:49) - The ideal covenant & its impact on Ark
(48:00) - Thoughts on extreme conservatism on Bitcoin
(52:55) - Way forward with Ark Labs
(56:18) - Opportunities & threats of stablecoins on Ark?
(01:02:39) - NIP46 & building Nostr Connect
(01:06:40) - Summary & closing thoughts

Links:
twitter.com/tierotiero
arklabs.to

Sponsors:
Swan.com (code LIVERA) swan.com/livera
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) coinkite.com
Mempool.space https://mempool.space/
Nomadcapitalist.com/apply nomadcapitalist.com/apply

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