Pete Winn: Fedimints Revisited

Crypto Voices: Episode 162

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Matthew, Alec & Michel talk with Pete Winn, Bitcoin educator extraordinaire. Pete worked formerly at Fedi, the company, as well as contributing to the open source Fedimint, and he is the founder of the educational portal "Bitcoin for Humans." We discuss the amazing benefits at a scale that Fedimints can bring to Bitcoin, as well as some of its criticisms and risks.

Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:21 What is Fedimint?
00:13:13 Regulators & Fedimint
00:21:00 Regulating Bitcoin
00:22:09 Protection over Fedimint
00:27:43 Criticism over Fedimint
00:36:13 Lighting Network
00:41:17 Bitcoin for Humans
00:45:30 Scaling and Fedimint
00:49:10 Bitcoin's Fees
00:52:28 Alec's Philosophical Question
00:59:11 Fedimint's Stability Pool
01:06:48 UTXO and the Future
01:09:09 Fedimint and Payment
01:14:43 Closing Thoughts

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Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris
Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/

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