05-18, 19:00–20:00 (Europe/Prague), Studio 1
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.
Physicist, hacker, open-source advocate. Humanity can only be saved if we restore the privacy of the individual on the internet.
Janusz is the founder and project lead for Bitcoin Layers, a risk analysis platform for Bitcoin scaling solutions. He also maintains Bitcoinrollups.io, an open-source website documenting the development of validity rollups on Bitcoin.
Founder and maintainer of Fedimint, Freedom-technology connoisseur, nerd and tinkerer.