Defi, DLC's, and Decentralization

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Argues that traditional “DeFi” design is risky on Bitcoin and instead shows working alternatives: discrete log contracts use oracles whose cheating would reveal private keys (economic punishment), contracts execute mostly off‑chain with a single on‑chain settlement, and tooling like miniscript, Sapio, and proposals such as BIP‑119 CTV aim to make contracts composable and auditable. Demonstrations include Lightning+CFD “stable channels” for dollar‑nominal payments, Bisq/JoinMarket routing for counterparty discovery, and examples where on‑chain AMM clones fail due to missing liquidity aggregation.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:40Pillars of Bitcoin
3. 9:19Smart Contracts
4. 22:44Regulatory Concerns
5. 37:41Stable Channels

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