The decentralised finance (DeFi) space has primarily remained in the hands of altcoin chains, promoters claim to have brought innovative financial instruments to the broader public within a KYC fee environment. While the barrier to entry is low, these trading platforms have yet to demonstrate a compelling use case beyond swapping between stablecoins, unregistered securities, […] The post What Are Liquidity Pools On Rootstock? appeared first on The Bitcoin Manual.| The Bitcoin Manual
I have written before on this blog about the “miners can steal” critique of Paul Sztorc and CryptAxe’s BIP-300 hashrate escrow proposal. In my previous post I gave several example…| @lightcoin
RE: I appreciate feedback on the proposal, but there is a lot in this note that I think is just flat out not true. Given Preston’s large audience I felt compelled to set the record straight. …| @lightcoin
This post is based on two Twitter threads I published about sovereign rollups on bitcoin here and here. A few weeks ago Eric Wall gave a talk at StarkWare Sessions where he left the audience with a…| @lightcoin
Last last year I had the pleasure of attending The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference aka TABConf. While there I saw many old friends and met lots of interesting new people as well. One of the people I ran…| @lightcoin
Today is the 14th anniversary of the creation of bitcoin’s genesis block. As I reflect on bitcoin’s progress over the past 14 years — which is by all measures amazing and somethin…| @lightcoin
This blog post is based on a twitter thread that I published here. One class of protocols that I mention in the appendices of are what I call “validia chains”. Validia chains share simi…| @lightcoin
This past March, Human Rights Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein announced a new fellowship program called the ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. The research fellow would be given a gran…| @lightcoin
An overview of State channels, Plasma, Rollups, Sidechains and Validium chains As Ethereum passes the milestone of a quarter of a billion unique addresses, daily gas used has remained over 100 million for more than a year, the number| Modern Consensus.