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Episode Synopsis
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)
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)
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