Around The Coin
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Around The Coin
MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network
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Faisal Khan and Mike Townsend | Glassbox Media
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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network, the home of tBTC, the only decentralized and permissionless Bitcoin bridge to Ethereum. He is a co-founder of NuCypher, which combined with Keep Network in the first-ever decentralized network merger to form Threshold.
Introduction: MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network
What is Threshold Network and tBTC?
Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC)
The Risks of the Process
The Permissions
T - Native Token for Threshold Network
2 ways for a Node to become Malicious or just not function correctly
Why would a wallet not be healthy?
Before Threshold Network
Bitcoin as a Distributed System
Alternative Bitcoin Bridges
Bitcoin Dominating Centralized Model and Decentralized Model
Reaction to USDC depeg
Banking is about Maturity Transformation
What are you seeing in the middle of the SVB Collapse?
The Government and Crypto Projects/Companies Getting into Banking
What People Should Learn From the Things Happened Last Year
The Role of T Token for the Decentralized Bitcoin Bridge
The Function of T Token