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Read_843 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 1

2024/9/4
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"Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions... But creating even a single UTXO per user is, arguably, not good enough. So there are many proposals out there to achieve even greater scaling by allowing multiple users to share a single UTXO in a self-sovereign way. Again, collapsing another “space” dimension of scaling users into one UTXO."****— Peter Todd

Today we dive into Peter Todd's recent review of the various Layer 2 covenant proposals and the soft forks associated with them to analyze the core concepts, the costs, and benefits of each. For moving into the next realm of scaling with genuine "L2's," what are the trade-offs and possibilities for Bitcoin's future?****

Check out the original report for more info and links to dig furtherSoft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review) (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdey68v4

Links to check out

Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin's research on the Bitcoin Dollar theory)

The Bitcoin Reformation by Tuur Demeester)

Lyn Alden's work on banking crises and global financial systems)

Preston Pysh's interview with Paolo Ardoino (Tether CTO))

Guy's previous episode: "The Hard Truth")

AI Unchained - Guy's other podcast on AI and technology)

Nostr - decentralized social media platform)

Pears.com)

 

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