2025-02-05
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Hey everyone.
Welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast.
So this is a very non standard show.
On Thursday of last week, 30 January 2025, Tether, the company that issues the USDT stablecoin, made a big announcement down in El Salvador that they were going to be issuing their stablecoin over the Bitcoin Lightning Network via the Taproot Asset Protocol.
After the announcement, I got a text message from my good friend Luke Groman, who's a repeat guest on the show in which we typically talk macro.
Well, the text messages started to get long back and forth between the two of us and I just shot him a message.
I said, why don't we just do a zoom call and we can just talk about this in a lot more detail.
So we started having the zoom call and quickly it was just like, okay, I need to hit the record button.
Because I think that some of this conversation, this very candid conversation between Luke and I could maybe useful for people that are just really kind of wanting to understand what the announcement is all about, what it means for payments and settlement and all sorts of things.
And I have to warn you, I was not using my podcast microphone.
I just had some earpods in whenever I was talking with Luke.
So this is completely unscripted.
There were no planned questions or anything.
It's just a very candid back and forth.
So I hope you guys enjoy this.
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Now for your host, Preston Pysh.
Foreign Luke, let's talk about this Taproot Asset Protocol situation that was announced in El Salvador yesterday with Tether and Lightning Lab.