Ethereum

i had this exact idea two years ago: a one-way bridge, burn Bitcoin to receive BBTC on Ethereum. wrote a btc light client contract, what's left is the token.

cc @geohot want to ship it?

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https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/11/17/a-one-way-bridge.html

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I buy that BBTC will have some value, but why would it be treated as equivalent to Bitcoin?

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that's right, it's not equivalent. @geohot called it "bridged bitcoin" but "burnt bitcoin" is more accurate.

*for now*, value would be at most 1BTC (bc u can always turn 1btc into 1bbtc) but with no lower bound... bbtc could trade at $0, pure loss.

only way bbtc can be > btc is if/when the btc chain dies.

Why would it even have *any* value? Yes, I spent X BTC to buy it. But it has none of the properties of BTC.

price = what you pay
value = what you get