Ark is coming 👀

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Tim Draper Invests In Ark Labs To Make Bitcoin Payments Easier

Bitcoin scalability startup Ark Labs raised $2.5M in a pre-seed round led by Tim Draper to advance its Ark protocol for faster, cheaper BTC payment...

Starting to prep my Riga talk 👀

Time is a flat circle ⚡️

BTC-backed loans, stable or yielding contracts and other derivatives advertised & exercised via Liquidity Ads & Nostr boards A Bitcoin native financial system intermediated by Nostr npubs and enforced w/ ecash, DLCs & Lightning settlements No shitcoin It's gonna be glorious!

Bitcoiners are going to have a hard time, get scammed, repeatedly deceived and go into depression until they are ready to admit that 99% of retail payments will not go through self-custodial UTXOs. You don't and can't get around L1 economics.

Over the last year Lightning, has been integrated into - Largest exchange in world (Binance) - Largest exchange in USA (Coinbase) - Largest exchange in Mexico (Bitso) - Largest exchange in SEA (Coinsph) - Largest fintech bank in South America (Nubank) but there are still people out there fading it.