Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're talking to Michael and Killian from Boltz, a non-custodial lightning service provider that focuses on helping users rebalance channels. It’s one of the first lightning network service providers to integrate Liquid, essentially stacking Bitcoin layer two solutions, which has some interesting benefits in terms of privacy speed and cost. If you found the conversation useful, don't forget to subscribe and share.
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00:45 What does Boltz do?
02:26 Using Liquid swaps
04:20 Why build on Liquid?
05:37 Challenges during implementation
07:42 Other channel rebalancing solutions
11:40 The swap process between Liquid and Lightning
15:34 What level of trust does Boltz require?
18:02 Lightning Network capacity
20:57 Bitcoin layer-2s supporting each other
22:05 Lightning Network transaction sizes
25:12 Lightning Network adoption
31:25 Optimizing Boltz
33:25 The Boltz API