2025-01-25 –, B | Blink Stage
Learn about the many ways that Liquid is a net benefit for Bitcoin, from code and cryptography, to scaling and Bitcoin financialization.
Liquid is a multipurpose Lightning-compatible confidential Bitcoin layer-2 network.
It was developed by Blockstream to scale Bitcoin in a layered approach.
Liquid features confidential transactions, one minute blocktimes, and new asset issuance.
The network is owned and operated by the Liquid Federation, which is comprised of over 70 companies around the world.
These companies span across Bitcoin sectors including exchanges, wallets, atomic swap platforms, merchant processing, investment funds, trustless lending, and more.
Byron is a software developer working on the Liquid Bitcoin sidechain at Blockstream. He is a Bitcoin, privacy, and freedom technology advocate. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, and is the only Blockstreamer currently living in South Africa. Byron works on maintaining Elements, which is an open source software fork of the Bitcoin core software. Elements runs the Liquid sidechain, a Bitcoin layer 2 scaling solution, which provides confidential transactions, faster blocktimes, and much cheaper fees. When he's not hacking on Rust or C++ code, he's chilling with his wife and kids, or enjoying the outdoors on his mountain bike.
Links:
https://x.com/byronhambly
https://primal.net/p/npub1empusn0uefqn5ymjj8f9xleaajufpxyjhu0d97yedjppdf2xw4uq6nr7fl