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Episode: Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
Description: We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Lightspark. That’s a company that just launched a service to make fast transactions using Bitcoin on something called the Lightning Network. David was previously at PayPal, and then he led Meta’s big payments effort that went nowhere, but he’s got a lot to say about where crypto and payments are right now.Links:Launching the Lightspark PlatformFacebook tells Congress how it t...