Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal.

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  • ● Why a deep dive? (0:40)

  • ● Proposal overview (1:58)

  • ● Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13)

  • ● What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42)

  • ● Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05)

  • ● Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22)

  • ● Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21)

  • ● Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11)

  • ● Decker–Wattenhofer relative lock times impact on users (38:44)

  • ● Discussion of trustless non-P2P protocol structure (40:01)

  • ● Contrasting SuperScalar with Ark (44:08)

  • ● Implementation discussion (48:44)

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