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Another explanation of how Ark works nehanarula.org/2025/05/20/ark.html

1329 sats \ 10 comments \ @k00b 20 May bitcoin

Ark is a design to scale payments on Bitcoin. There are several explanations out there about Ark, but I couldn’t understand most of them, so I wrote my own. I also summarize how different opcode soft forks can help improve Ark properties, and compare Ark with other designs to address scalability like Lightning and rollups.

This is by @neha on X.

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50 sats \ 5 replies \ @BlokchainB 20 May

Ark is so above my brain. What gets me is the expiration of the VTXOs

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibreHans 14h

As far as I understand you can always unilaterally exit the ark, but that generates on chain fees. Of course, you'd need a watchtower service or somesuch for that. Basically, same as lightning. As I understand it.

1138 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 20 May

That's the scam, make a Rube Goldberg machine to smuggle trust, call it scaling so you can astroturf a virtue signaling army to shill your shitcoin that you pretend is Bitcoin

577 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 20 May

Why it is hard for me to get behind this project when after acquiring it the asset can vanish due to time decay which is a crazy concept when it comes to a digital asset claiming to scale bitcoin

445 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 20 May

There's an inherent liveness tradeoff once you leave the security of chain, lightning has this risk too, hense watchtowers

Arks entire positioning though is to be better than lightning, but since the challenges lightning faces are inherent to Bitcoin itself, they just lie

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsMoro 18h

yikes