Atomic Swaps: How this affects Bitcoin

Decred and Litecoin completed something called a cross-chain atomic swap a few days ago. They published a blog about it, created a GitHub repo with utilities and talked about it on my show.
In this article, I’m going to explain what atomic swaps are, how this affects Bitcoin and what we can expect going forward.Problem of Trust
To understand what an atomic swap is, we have to first understand an inherent problem in trading. Suppose Alice wants to buy something