Rui Gomes from OpenNode/Lapps - LNJ05

Lightning Junkies

English - October 07, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 98.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Fifth episode of the Lightning Junkies Podcast. In this episode, I interview Gui Gomes from OpenNode/Laaps. OpenNode is a Bitcoin only payment processor that allows payments on base-chain Bitcoin as well as Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. Laaps is a directory of the best Lightning Network apps in the space. In this episode we explore:

Rui's Background
Lightning Spin
OpenNode
Reasons to be skeptical about Lightning
KYC on OpenNode
OpenNode vs Bitpay
Laaps (Lightning Apps)
Newbies starting on Lightning
Circular Economy
Future Lightning Developments
Recent Lightning Exploit

Rui's Twitter: https://twitter.com/8bitgomes

OpenNode's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenNodeCo

OpenNode's Website: https://www.opennode.com/

Lapps' Twitter: https://twitter.com/lappsln

Lapps' Website: https://www.lapps.co/

Lightning Network apps mentioned:

https://twitter.com/lntxbot

https://kriptode.com/satsforlikes/index.html

https://paid.co/

https://ln.pizza/

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