More Expressive Smart Contracts with Bitcoin
summary
Claims a stack of EVM‑compatible Bitcoin L2s that settle back to Bitcoin and target the $1.3 trillion Bitcoin liquidity (56% market share), with one project launching mainnet three months ago and another aiming for mainnet end‑September/October. Concrete builds include spider chains, a Bitcoin verification primitive (BF) and an onchain UTXO indexing layer to avoid off‑chain spreadsheets. Argues miners see extra fee revenue, wrapped BTC centralization remains a seizure risk, and EVM compatibility trades security for developer portability.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Bitcoin programmability and DeFi
- 3:13Bitcoin Layer 2 demand
- 4:36Bitcoin verification vs sidechains
- 6:43Risks of Bitcoin as store of value
- 7:26Bitcoin L2s vs wrapped Bitcoin
- 9:10Bitcoin Renaissance and miners
- 10:58Ethereum L2 liquidity fragmentation
- 11:59Bitcoin L2 fragmentation solutions
- 13:45Multi-chain liquidity sharing
- 14:50Fragmentation of use cases across L2s
- 15:36Bitcoin attracting all liquidity
- 16:17Bitcoin L2 EVM compatibility
- 17:22Bitcoin’s killer app
- 17:45L2 roast event
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