
Pablo Greco
179 posts

Pablo Greco
@PabloSGreco
a hobbyist and hacker who is a real threat to open source companies everywhere




There are now three Liquid functionary operators signaling for Simplicity. Activation requires unanimous support from all functionaries over a window of 10,080 blocks. Keep an eye on the Simplicity tracker 👇 and follow as it unfolds in real-time! simplicity-lang.org







It absolutely has something to do with Ethereum: in Bitcoin (a UTXO chain) you are signing off on the state transition from a transaction, which is very easily verified in a hardware wallet screen. In Ethereum you are signing off on fund movement AND a command to send a smart contract (which could lead to further fund movement) – a VERY error prone UX. ETH transactions don't represent the state transition, they represent the command triggering the state transition.




















When you bridge in and out of Liquid, fees go to miners, helping ensure a healthy fee market as Bitcoin scales through its second layer. Similar to how in Lightning you pay miners when opening and closing a channel. Below is the federation's wallet, where you can see the TX fees in the peg-out process. mempool.space/address/bc1qxv…













