How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin with Obi Nwosu

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Obi Nwosu is a co-founder of Fedimint and a board member of Jack Dorsey’s and Jay-Z’s ₿trust. In this interview, we discuss the mission of Fedimint: empowering communities around the world by allowing them to take control of their money. We also talk about the importance of trust models in relation to storing Bitcoin in Fedimint.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:57 What is Fedimint
00:10:54 Example use case - West African farming cooperative
00:18:33 Volatility risk: stablecoins and stability pools
00:25:24 Live Demo - Lightning transaction via Fedimint
00:37:51 Comparison to Liquid; benefits for Lightning Network
00:48:58 The trust dynamic of Fedimint
00:59:30 Live Demo 2 - setting up a Federation; private key backup
01:19:48 Fedimint chat function; making offline payments
01:30:31 Fedimint actions to aid Bitcoin adoption

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