elizabeth stark @starkness
Elizabeth Stark is the co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, the leading company building the Lightning Network — Bitcoin's layer-two protocol for fast, low-cost payments. A former lecturer at Stanford and Yale who taught about the internet's open protocols, she has spent nearly a decade arguing that Bitcoin needs a scaling layer to become a true medium of exchange, and Lightning Labs' releases, developer tooling and the Taproot Assets protocol have been central to that effort. Her feed mixes Lightning ecosystem news, developer advocacy, open-source values and commentary on Bitcoin's evolution as infrastructure. She remains one of the most prominent women leading core infrastructure work in the industry.
Why follow
- Direct insight into Lightning Network development from the company driving much of it.
- A principled open-protocols perspective connecting Bitcoin to internet history.
- Signals on Bitcoin's evolution beyond store-of-value, including payments and assets on Lightning.
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