POV Crypto Episode 26 — Lightning Network Economics with Nik Bhatia

Christian brings on Nik Bhatia, an economist specializing in interests rates, to discuss the economics of the Lightning Network.

Nik Bhatia is famous for his The Time Value of Bitcoin article, as well as numerous other content pieces surrounding Bitcoin and the Lightning Network

Topics Include

How to make passive income with the Lightning Network

How the Lightning Network reflects double-entry bookkeeping.

The interaction with Lightning Network and the Bitcoin blockchain

The fee market

Reasons to create or shutdown a channel

Current experiments underway to measure the average interest rate to Channel creators

Current experiments underway to measure the average interest rate to Channel creators

And more!

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