Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. This week we’re talking about the Lightning Network with Adi Shankara, senior product manager for Greenlight and Core Lightning at Blockstream. Greenlight is a Lightning-as-a-service (LaaS) solution that allows developers to enable lightning payments in their applications while granting users full and exclusive control over their funds. Greenlight's current solution, which might be the only truly non-custodial lightning network as a service solution in the market. It specifically targeted at helping developers that want to integrate the Lightning Network. The non-custodial part is probably a unique part of the value proposition. Not just in terms of not your keys, not your coins, but also from a regulatory perspective. As we've seen recently with the issues around the app store, and apps like Damus and Zeus. If you find this conversation useful don't forget to subscribe and share.
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01:02 Who is Adi?
01:46 What is Greenlight?
02:50 Challenges of running a Lightning node
06:54 Status of Greenlight developer preview
09:26 Regulations and compliance
11:29 Building apps on Greenlight
13:58 Benefits of Lightning
15:03 Lightning Network adoption
15:52 The security of Greenlight
17:31 Cost effectiveness of running a node
18:50 Routing nodes vs edge nodes
19:42 Greenlight’s approach to privacy
20:54 Lightning node backups with Greenlight
22:00 Facilitating user off boarding to own infrastructure
22:42 No walled gardens
23:13 Liquid Integrations
23:43 Summer of Bitcoin
25:18 Adding Greenlight to Lightning devs tooling