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Bitcoin Optech: SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast
Published 1 year, 5 months ago
Description
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal.
- Why a deep dive? (0:40)
- Proposal overview (1:58)
- Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13)
- What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42)
- Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05)
- Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22)
- Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21)
- Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11)
- Decker–Wattenhofer relative lock times impact on users (38:44)
- Discussion of trustless non-P2P protocol structure (40:01)
- Contrasting SuperScalar with Ark (44:08)
- Implementation discussion (48:44)