TheCryptoStakr

California just passed a bill to seize Bitcoin left idle on exchanges. After 3 years of inactivity, assets can be taken by the state under 'Unclaimed Property' laws. This is theft!

Austin Federa breaks down why Bitcoin miners are abandoning mining for AI: "Even when Bitcoin was at $120K, data centers were shutting down and pivoting. AI pays more for the same power."

rollup research flourished because Ethereum hoped it would fix scaling after sharded execution was deemed too complex to ship. but after 4+ years building in this space, it’s clear to me: rollups aren’t primarily useful for "scaling" an ecosystem, unless scaling means running identical chains competing for the same use cases. they’re a new primitive for building new blockchains easily and cheaply. spinning up and maintaining a validator set is hard and expensive. if you’re building anything high-performance, each replica has high operational costs. and since it’s likely new software, you’ll need operators willing to deal with ongoing bugs. they’ll demand a premium. all of this costs money and attention. resources startups should be extremely careful with. rollups let you skip the validator set entirely. pay for data as you go. if any party wants full security or transparency on your chain’s operations, they just run a full node pointed at the same DA layer namespace. that’s it. if you’re building a new chain, let’s talk.