420 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 6 Jan 2023 \ on: AMA - John Light, bitcoin researcher bitcoin
what was the reception like to your bitcoin rollups research? were you at all surprised by the reaction of the bitcoin community?
as a follow up, are there any new learnings you have uncovered since the report was published that might be relevant to implementing rollups on bitcoin?
what was the reception like to your bitcoin rollups research? were you at all surprised by the reaction of the bitcoin community?
so far the response has been mainly positive or neutral. a couple of negative comments but nothing substantial, stuff like "this will never happen, bitcoin doesn't change" (which is obviously wrong, since bitcoin changed to adopt taproot/schnorr just over a year ago). given that validity rollups align so well with bitcoin values like trust minimization, decentralized validation, open and permissionless access, etc, I was not really surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response.
as a follow up, are there any new learnings you have uncovered since the report was published that might be relevant to implementing rollups on bitcoin?
this wasn't a direct response to my report but ruben somsen has an interesting theory that if bitcoin full nodes switch to what I call "proof-sync" clients like zerosync then rollups would not be safe to use due to data unavailability concerns:
https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1566709837395894272
I have some thoughts about this but I'm waiting for a longer-form exposition of this theory before I form a solid opinion and respond to it.
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