Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Keagan McClelland Intro 06:58 - Lightning Nodes vs. Personal Servers 15:29 - Current Features on Start9’s Embassy 20:32 - Future Applications for Lightning Nodes 24:23 - Lightning Nodes & Hardware Design 28:07 - Are Embassy Apps Censorship Resistant? 30:39 - Decentralized Network Efficiency Trade-offs 35:00 - Do People Care About Privacy & Censorship? 37:42 - How Much Storage Do People Need? 39:23 - How Does Start9 Earn Revenue? 43:17 - Centralization Risks & Personal Servers 45:27 - Start9 Competitive Advantages 49:01 - The Growth of the Lightning Network 51:35 - Challenges for Lightning Network Builders 56:31 - Lightning Node Predictions 01:00:44 - Interesting Lightning Projects to Keagan 01:05:51 - The Lightning Round

Keagan McClelland is the co-founder of Start9 Labs, where his team is ushering in the age of sovereign computing with their personal servers.

Keagan and I spoke about the distinction between Bitcoin/Lightning nodes and personal servers, the challenges of getting app developers and users to adopt personal servers, the growth of the Lightning Network, and the new technologies Keagan is most excited about.

→ Start9 Labs: https://start9.com/