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Today on the show, we’re exploring the frontier of ZK Rollups on Bitcoin!

The Bitcoin L2 landscape is standing on the shoulders of this technical implementation called BitVM. We brought Robin Linus, one of the author’s of the BitVM White Paper, to not only dive into how BitVM got started, but more importantly, what it means for the future of Bitcoin.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
5:03 Who is Robin Linus?
10:20 Why Bitcoin?
16:19 Bitcoin Needs to Scale
22:15 BitVM Eureka Moment
24:31 The State of BitVM
27:19 BitVM vs Ethereum Rollups
33:45 How Does BitVM Work?
46:07 BitVM Critiques
55:07 The Bitcoin L2 Space
59:33 The BitVM Endgame
1:03:07 The Future of Bitcoin
1:07:09 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Robin Linus
https://x.com/robin_linus

Robin Linus Website
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BitVM
https://bitvm.org/

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