The VCs: but how much faster are you than the EVM Bitcoin L2s? Me:

Preparation is key

Built different.

RT @highlayer_io: Do you have an idea? 💡 Build it on Bitcoin, with JavaScript, using Highlayer We offer speed, excellent DX, good UX, and…

Few will understand.

The Founders of Highlayer WAGMI 🇮🇳

We agree with Kim Jong Un’s emotional speech. There is no second best. 🇰🇵 #Bitcoin

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Come and build on Highlayer. Our CEO will not seduce your wife.

Do you understand?

Few things that I learnt by building Highlayer: - BitVM is interesting, but only a patch to a deeper problem and it has too many tradeoffs. - Real covenants, like OP_CAT, could be implemented, but it will take time before they are accepted, if ever. There are still significant risks associated with these covenants that are currently under active research. If they finally get implemented, BitVM will be pretty much useless and any Bitcoin Layer 2 will be able to benefit from them. - It would be quite easy to fork an EVM layer 2 stack and add some marginal improvement, but this is not the way. We chose a more challenging path with Highlayer by designing our own VM, data availability system, and parallelization mechanisms. We believe these efforts will lead to meaningful improvements for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Fast. Cheap. Easy. Get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about building on Bitcoin with Javascript smart contracts and parallelization. (Sheesh)

Data Availability problem, but 7 years before it was discovered. petertodd.org/2013/disentang… (Thanks @peterktodd ). Bitcoin is where crypto innovation happens/happened.

We're doing for Bitcoin what Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism did for Ethereum. Except we're doing it better.