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Pierre Rochard is a Bitcoin advocate, entrepreneur, and a Product Manager at Kraken, where he played a key role in launching Kraken’s Lightning Network integration.
Pierre and I discussed exactly how Kraken’s Lightning integration was launched, the trade-offs that exchanges face when considering integrating with the Lightning Network, and a wide array of Lightning Network predictions.
00:00 - Intro 01:04 - Pierre Rochard Intro 13:52 - Kraken’s Lightning Network Integration 17:34 - Will Kraken Be a Catalyst for Other Exchanges to Adopt Lightning? 27:06 - Using Lightning for Exchange Operations vs. Routing Revenue 36:11 - Why Kraken Chose to Build on LND 46:10 - Exchanges Choosing To Integrate Lightning 54:07 - Lightning Network Predictions 1:17:56 - The Lightning Round
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This episode is also in another, earlier, post here on SN, using the Fountain.fm audio podcast link:
Pierre Rochard on Launching Kraken's Lightning Integration #17708 https://play.fountain.fm/episode/7538374766
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There's also a four minute clip from this episode that was featured in its own post here on SN:
"Lightning is not only faster than all blockchains, it's impossible to be faster than Lightning." #22840
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