@Alex B. - what are some questions you want me to ask the rollup teams next week on a spaces?

The sentiment on Twitter is that this is the most exciting time for bitcoin “L2s” whilst tbtc on arbitrum has a better trust assumption than anything on the market

I’m really annoyed that I’m not in Riga.

Not a huge fan of “we did it first” but this might be the first podcast on BitVM2? I chatted with Alexei Zamyatin, one of the paper’s co-authors, about BitVM2, BitVM Bridge, and how it can support better sidechains. Check it out! Feedback also welcome. New-ish to hosting podcast-style discussions.

Interesting few days. - We wrote a review on the ICP subnet that manages its Bitcoin-synthetic - Most people were like, yeah, fair enough - Some people accused of being paid to write a hit piece on ICP - Then they all ganged up on us - I was like "wtf?" - Then the ICP devs were like "yeah, everything they wrote is true" Everyone is still mad lmao

we are currently getting yelled at by the latter group here View quoted note →

Maxis yell at us for writing about shitcoins. Shitcoiners yell at us for writing about their shitcoin. Comfy

We did a review on ICP. They call themselves a Bitcoin L2 in some marketing stuff. Tl;dr is that they have a blockchain of 28 nodes managing their BTC multisig and sidechain. Some other depedencies, but this is the main trust assumption. It takes 10 of the 28 nodes to collude and steal user funds. Review here:

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Some bitcoinlayers.org product updates underway: Added a snapshot to risk icons in the home page. This way users can hover over the icons and see what they mean. We’ll add the specific icon next to risk category heading to ensure ppl know what they mean… Also planning on adding some sorting mechanism and new definitions This will see low risk L2s (e.g. Lightning) appear at the top of the page, followed by sidechains (liquid, rootstock), then remora chains (e.g. Stacks, Core), then stuff that is not really connected to Bitcoin, but is more of an appchain (eg BOB). Now, does the ordering above make one chain more secure than the other? Not necessarily. It’s more of highlighting mechanisms that are bitcoin aligned versus others that aren’t. We’ll get this done within next 10 business days.

latest “L2” we’re reviewing just rebranded, replaced its old token with a new one, and is using a synthetic btc token for gas it’s literally the same node software lol

this is cool I don’t have to be nice about Bitcoin “L2s” on here