What a rollup is and why Bitcoin needed one
Bitcoin is the most secure network in the world, yet it settles only about seven transactions per second. Rollups offer a way to scale without compromising the security of the base layer.
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Bitcoin is the most secure network in the world, yet it settles only about seven transactions per second. Rollups offer a way to scale without compromising the security of the base layer.
Why does Bitcoin Hyper propose using the Solana Virtual Machine as its execution environment? A guide for readers who know Bitcoin but are meeting smart contracts for the first time.
Several major rollups, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base among them, launched with a centralised sequencer. Is that an acceptable trade-off or a warning sign?
The Lightning Network and Bitcoin Hyper both set out to scale Bitcoin. Even so, the two were built for quite different worlds. An even-handed comparison.
From Appendix E of the book: ten decisive questions for anyone considering a position in $HYPER, together with the markers of a credible answer and of a weak one.