In this tenth episode of the podcast, we have Ruben Somsen talking about Statechains. Statechains are another layer two technology that uses the trading of entire UTXOs to save block-space on the base layer of Bitcoin. Ruben is also the founder of the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup and a co-host on the Unhashed Podcast. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Ruben's Background
• Seoul Bitcoin Meetup
• Unhashed Podcast
• Statechains
• Statechains and Lightning
• Eltoo
• Channel Factories
• On-chain Scaling
• Transaction Fees
• Centralization of Lightning
• Opendimes with Statechains
• Future of Bitcoin
• Circular Economy
• Future of Lightning
• PoW Fraud Proofs

Ruben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben

Seoul Bitcoin Meetup's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeoulBitcoin

Unhashed Podcast's Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnhashedPodcast

Unhashed's Website: https://www.unhashedpodcast.com/

Links to Statechain list of links on Ruben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1145738783192600576

Fraud Proof Link #1: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-April/016873.html

Link #2: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-September/017287.html

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