Bitcoin Optech: SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast

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

• 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)