onthebrink

Unpopular opinion: Despite the buzz, I can't help but feel Bitcoin "Rollup" is just a narrative, *conveniently sidestepping* the fact that a hard fork (to meaningfully scale) would ultimately be necessary...

You have to publish proofs on L1. 

Single proof can include many transactions but they are quite big and I would like to understand how they would fit into current limitations. 

I assume they won’t - so I am saying hard fork is inevitable..

Onchain boomer building out the world of decentralized networks, financial protocols, and DAOs. 
Current focus: vaults.fyi

BitVM allows ZK rollups to work on Bitcoin today with no hard or soft forks. A ”fully trustless rollup” on Bitcoin would be possible with just a softfork (op_strk_verify or some other zkp verifier). I recommend this explainer:

BitVM allows ZK rollups to work on Bitcoin today with no hard or soft forks. A ”fully trustless rollup” on Bitcoin would be possible with just a softfork (op_strk_verify or some other zkp verifier). I recommend this explainer:

https://x.com/david_seroy/status/1756719864046317792?s=46

This is a good chat to have on next episode.