Liquid Sidechain with Niko ~ Open Source Everything
World Crypto Network
Blockstream's Liquid uses federated consensus (11-of-15 signers produce blocks; 2-of-3 Watchmen control the bitcoin peg multisig) for confidential transactions and 1-minute blocks while maintaining a cryptographic 1:1 bitcoin backing. Max Hillebrand interviews Murad Mahmudov on the central thesis: sidechains enable opt-in scaling by trading Bitcoin's trustlessness for efficiency and privacy, with

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