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Update 2026-04-15: The previous version of this post mistakenly conflated two proposals in one of the section titles, so now there is a new anti-roadmap item, “Disabling creation of QV outputs”, and another anti-roadmap item was renamed from “Forced migra…

MP3: Q&A session with Rusty Russell and Julian Moik, co-authors of the Great Script Restoration BIPs.

Update 2025-10-08: This post was originally written as a response to a video published by Jimmy Song.

In his recent post, “Privacy needs to be baked into L1“, Frank Braun makes the bold claim: Privacy is the absence of information leakage and that implies it comes from value at rest, not value in motion.

Back in January I participated in a debate against Justin Drake on the topic “Will zk rollups on bitcoin make Ethereum obsolete?”

Today is the 15th Genesis Block Day, the anniversary of the creation of bitcoin’s genesis block.

Update 2023-12-15: In the feature comparison chart, I replaced “Can onboard directly to the protocol” with “Trust-minimized zero-conf onboarding”, to better convey the difference between Lightning and validity rollups/validia chains that I wanted to highl…

RE: https://nostr.band/note12yse7ke6t6wcx79h2rzmwzqj2mmqyze3evdg0k2aa0xkkx79jtassf063z I appreciate feedback on the proposal, but there is a lot in this note that I think is just flat out not true.

This post is based on two Twitter threads I published about sovereign rollups on bitcoin here and here.

Last last year I had the pleasure of attending The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference aka TABConf.