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Can Validity Rollups Help Scale Bitcoin?

First, it’s not my idea. Satoshi [pondered](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637) the idea of zero-knowledge proofs on Bitcoin in 2010, and there were many people (including Bitcoiners) involved in the [research that led to rollups](https://bitcoinrollups.org/#section-0-the-history-and-prehistory-of-validity-rollups).

@lightcoin wrote a detailed report highlighting potential rewards and risks of implementing validity rollups, and at the end of it all finished with the following conclusion:

> All factors considered, given that validity rollups are "trustless" by design, and could be implemented without introducing new risks or sacrificing any of bitcoin’s core values or features, we believe the simplest implementations of validity rollups would be a great fit for bitcoin.

The full report can be found here: https://bitcoinrollups.org/