elsirion
Founder and maintainer of Fedimint, Freedom-technology connoisseur, nerd and tinkerer.
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We often get hung up on definitions of layers and everything wants to be a "Layer 2" these days. This talk will go into my thoughts why this is misguided and how instead we should be emphasizing the properties we care about and try to optimize for them instead of some fancy marketing term.
New Bitcoin L2s claim to scale Bitcoin’s throughput with minimal trust assumptions. But when you dive deeper, the trust models for these scaling solutions aren’t any different than federated (and custodial) ecash application modules. On this panel, a rollup curious host will quiz the panelists on the trust assumptions related to different ecash implementations to learn if building rollup-like systems is even worth it.