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476 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightcoin OP 6 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: AMA - John Light, bitcoin researcher bitcoin
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.
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.