MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network

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.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction: MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network
• 1:34 What is Threshold Network and tBTC?
• 2:36 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC)
• 4:48 The Risks of the Process
• 8:52 The Permissions
• 11:22 T - Native Token for Threshold Network
• 16:19 2 ways for a Node to become Malicious or just not function correctly
• 19:20 Why would a wallet not be healthy?
• 20:25 Before Threshold Network
• 23:24 Bitcoin as a Distributed System
• 24:02 Alternative Bitcoin Bridges
• 25:16 Bitcoin Dominating Centralized Model and Decentralized Model
• 29:56 Reaction to USDC depeg
• 33:15 Banking is about Maturity Transformation
• 39:59 What are you seeing in the middle of the SVB Collapse?
• 43:33 The Government and Crypto Projects/Companies Getting into Banking
• 46:35 What People Should Learn From the Things Happened Last Year
• 48:46 The Role of T Token for the Decentralized Bitcoin Bridge
• 51:07 The Function of T Token