BTC220: US dollars on Bitcoin Lightning w/ Luke Gromen (Bitcoin Podcast)

You're listening to TIP. Hey everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast. So this is a very nonstandard show. On Thursday of last week, the thirtieth of January, twenty twenty five. Tether, the company that issues the USDT stablecoin, made a big announcement down in El Salvador that they were going to be issuing their stablecoin over the Bitcoin Lightning network via the Taproot Asset Protocol. After the announcement, I got a text message from my good friend Luke Grohman, who's a repeat guest on the show, in which we typically talk about macro.

Well the text messages started to get long back and forth between the two of us. And I just shot him a message. I said, Why don't we just do a Zoom call and uh we can just talk about this in a lot more detail. So we started having the Zoom call and quickly it was just like okay. I need to hit the record button because I think that some of this conversation, this very candid conversation between Luke and I could be maybe useful for people that are just really kind of wanting to understand what the announcement is all about, what it means for payments and settlement and all sorts of things. And I have to warn you, I was not using my podcast microphone. I just had some ear pods in whenever I was talking with Luke.

So this is completely unscripted. There were no plann questions or anything. It's just a very candid back and forth. So I hope you guys enjoy this. Celebrating 10 years You are listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network.

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