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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network A Success?

It’s 10 years since the invention of the Lightning Network! Is it a success or failure?


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Matt Kimmell joins us to evaluate the Lightning Network's decade long journey. We break down Lightning using simple analogies (bar tabs and abacuses!), trace its historical development through Bitcoin's scaling debates, and try to assess its successes and disappointments. While Lightning functions technically and has achieved notable adoption milestones, the we discuss why user experience remains challenging and if we can address persistent issues like channel liquidity management and offline reception problems.


Notes

- Lightning whitepaper published in 2015 (decade ago)

- Three softforks enabled Lightning functionality

- Trump used Lightning for burger purchase on camera

- Many Lightning wallet providers have shut down

- Channel liquidity management remains a major UX issue

- Binance and major exchanges now support Lightning


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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:17 What is the Lightning Network?

08:50 History of Lightning

21:34 Web3

26:35 Arch Network

27:07 New use cases

30:05 Lightning successes

37:49 Lightning failures

41:30 OP_NEXT

48:06 UX challenges

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Give Some Love To Chicago-Style BBQ

Chicago-style BBQ may not be as well known as other regional BBQs like those from Texas, Memphis or the Carolinas, but it’s just as unique. Reset digs into the history of Chicago-style BBQ with Gary Wiviott, pitmaster and author of “Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons” and Daniel Hammond, executive chef and owner of Smoky Soul Barbecue. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Alex Karp’s Fight for the West

Alex Karp is many things: a cross-country skier, a long-range shooter, a tai chi expert who might be the only man who knows how to wield a sword but doesn’t know how to drive. He’s also a collector of extremely prestigious degrees. His PhD thesis was called “Aggression in the Life-World: The Extension of Parsons’ Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture.” 


Since 2003, he has also been the CEO of Palantir, a software and data analytics company that does defense and intelligence work. Simply put, it’s a company that stops terror attacks—while also helping make sports cars go faster and pharmaceutical companies build better drugs.


Bari sat down with Alex Karp at UATX to discuss his new book, The Technological Republic, which offers a vision of how Silicon Valley lost its way and how the future of America and the West hinges on it finding its way back—fast. It just debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list.


They also discuss Barnard students occupying a campus building, the religious nature of woke culture, and DOGE. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Betamax vs. VHS (Encore)

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology.


Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the market. In the end, one format crushed the other and was left as the victor.


However, legend holds that the inferior format was actually the victorious one. 


Learn more about Betamax vs. VHS videotape wars and if the worse technology actually won on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



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NBN Book of the Day - Mark Neocleous, “Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police” (Verso, 2025)

Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025).

For more than two decades, Neocleous has been a pioneer in the radical critique of policing, security, and warfare. Today we will discuss his newest work on the theory and practice of pacification, which, he argues, is “social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace.” Pacification not only aims to counter resistance to capitalist exploitation, dispossession, and displacement, but it aims to prevent such resistance from emerging in the first place by constructing social institutions and the built environment. Pacification is a totalizing process by which states deploy social policies, symbolic practices, and coercive operations in order to produce cooperative – or at least acquiescent – subjects. However, pacification never succeeds in obscuring the antagonistic nature of capitalist social relations. Consequently, pacification becomes an endless social war for peace.

Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University in London. His previous books include A Critical Theory of Police Power (reissued by Verso in 2021), The Politics of Immunity (Verso, 2022), and War Power, Police Power (Edinburgh 2014). As a member of the Anti-Security Collective, he co-authored the Security Abolition Manifesto, which is available at anti-security.org. 

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: COVID’s Legacy – How Tech, Trust, & Isolation Changed Us

It’s been five years since the start of one of the most pivotal chapters in modern history: the COVID-19 pandemic. But beyond its impact on health, how has it reshaped our trust, relationships, and everyday interactions?

In this episode, we explore the lasting social effects of the pandemic  – from the rise of digital technology to the retreat into isolation to growing political divides.

Listen now for a conversation about the ways COVID-19 reshaped society today and what it means for our future.

 

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CBS News Roundup - 03/15/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Allison Keyes gets the latest from Tracy Wholf on the massive changes made at the EPA this week amid a global battle against climate change. It's been five years since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic - we'll take a look back. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about free speech versus antisemitism.

Featured: Allison has a disturbing report on the decline in bird populations in the nation.

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Slate Books - Gabfest Reads | The Day the Challenger Fell From the Sky

David Plotz talks with author Adam Higginbotham about his new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. They discuss the feats of engineering that took place, the political cynicism and cost-cutting that played a role in the tragedy, the heroism and tragic loss of the people on board the shuttle, and more.   


Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Big Law Stands Up

Donald Trump continued his almost uninterrupted losing streak in the courts. Across the country we saw federal judges openly criticizing his Administration officials and their lawyers for overreach, bullying and misrepresentations about not only their cases, but about norms and values. But Trump has both judges and law firms in his crosshairs. On this week’s show, former US Attorney Preet Bharara joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the role of lawyers and law firms and legal norms in a crisis of lawlessness, and the extent to which court victories alone can save democracy. 


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