What is up you beautiful people!

We back with another episode. I heard from multiple people around Stacks that I should talk to this guy Alexei. I had never heard of his company Interlay before or checked out what they are building.

After our 45-minute conversation. I wouldn't say i’m a full believer but I am SUPER BULLISH on builders with perspectives like these. Alexei has a well-balanced approach to Bitcoin that is incredibly rare to see in a world full of “Bitcoin, not blockchain” bullshit.

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For Episode #113, I sat down with Alexei Zamyatin. A bitcoin researcher and builder who has commissioned quite a few research papers on decentralization, merge mining, bridges and more. More interestingly, his team have been building what might be the current gold standard for a decentralized Bitcoin bridge.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got into Bitcoin early via Namecoin

• What is Interlay?

• The goal they set out to prove with V1 of their bridge

• Whats coming soon in V2?

• The current state of Bitcoin finance as a regular user

• The difficulties building a decentralized bridge

• Building a modular bridge that can adapt to different blockchains

and much more.

As I said before. It can be hard to find Bitcoiners who have a really rational balanced take on building within the design constraints of Bitcoin without closing the door on innovation that should be brought here.

Alexei’s takes on how him and his team have thought through these hard problems I found absolutely fascinating. You will definitely learn something watching this episode.

Watch/Listen to E113: Building a Bitcoin Bridge for All Chains with Alexei Zamyatin here

Love yall!

-Jake