hell yes we're almost there gang just another $654, and eth will be at the price i paid for it in 2021

what's happening with bitcoin l2s @spark, a protocol that enables unilateral exits, went live and is crushing partnership announcements @arkade_os is building towards what most consider "a real l2" and is focusing on additional programmability. @citrea_xyz and @AlpenLabs both have public testnets and are *actual* bitcoin rollups @Starknet is cracked on the research side and @StarkWareLtd has been contributing to bitcoin FOSS for 18+ months @BotanixLabs shipped a legit sidechain where its federation is larger, and has equal transparency, to other ecosystem's L2 security councils Lightning, while difficult to use, is an actual L2 that enables unilateral exit plus recourse against fraud all the cool stuff is happening now. apologies if you over indexed last year and RT'd "bitcoin L3" partnership announcements

dozens of teams front ran the tech being production ready so they ran out of money and pivoted to other stuff the 10-20 legit teams are still building in the space

fyi @bitcoinoptech recommends that you subscribe to @btcinsider__

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #366 is here: - announces draft BIPs for Utreexo - summarizes continued discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate - describes a proposal to allow nodes to share their block templates to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies - recaps the "Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet" PR Review Meeting - includes a recommendation to readers - issues a correction to last week’s newsletter - Optech Newsletter #366 Podcast

Commercial attempts to solve Bitcoin’s privacy have faced tremendous barriers. Short-term profit motives have delivered partial and temporary solutions, but transacting privately on Bitcoin remains a challenge... Announcing Payjoin Foundation to address these. Link below:

NEW FROM @BTCPLUSPLUS RIGA: The Payjoin Foundation launches to support bitcoin privacy research and development. In discussion with the Insider Edition, Payjoin contributors shared their motivation for starting the new non-profit, and what it means for future development efforts. The non-profit has received initial funding from @OpenSats and is directly supporting developers working on the Payjoin protocol. Full post below 👇

Arkade is going to be the first Bitcoin layer two to launch since the Lightning Network, 10 years ago. Time to level up. 👾

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something i've been pondering the last few days is if "sidechain-level security is good enough"