Bitcoin for Institutions

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River Financial is bitcoin-only, ~37–40 people, operating in 46 US states, offering custody, brokerage and mining and dedicating ~20% of engineering to Lightning; Lightning ships in the app today (used to buy a beer onstage) and infrastructure runs as a hot wallet with HSM-style remote signing and strict fund limits so no losses to date. The claim: Lightning becomes an inter-exchange and inter-institution settlement rail for instant transfers; maturity looks like several years, not months.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 17:01Pathways on the Lightning Network
3. 19:00Do You Serve Institutional Clients outside of the Us
4. 26:28Is esg Preventing Institutions from Buying Bitcoin
5. 37:23Closing Thoughts

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