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How can Ark and VTXOs enable a new level of bitcoin scripting and expressivity? Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 of Ark Labs explains how it can be done with Arkade

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Can Bitcoin lending be facilitated through DLCs using Arkade scripting? Philip Hoenisch (Philipp) co-founder @Lendasat explains...

'merican freedom at work

Today at 8 PM CET / 2 PM EST I will interview Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 about his work on open source projects such as BTCPay Server, Ark & everything in between Tune in if you want to ask any questions! cc BTCPay Server Ark Labs

Building Ark & BTCPay with Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E31) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Building Ark & BTCPay with Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E31) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"Why didn't you use Rust to build this?"

I worry about us losing the cypherpunk ethos Bitcoin and the tech it operates on was founded on. We’ve gone from a focus on building a better, alternative system that is independent of the broken legacy system — to full integration with centralized, controlled trad fi. The

In the process of exporting the merged audio of last night’s interview with Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 It’s a 3h conversation in which he talks about his work on Ark Labs & BTCPay Server In ~30 minutes you should find it on Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Fountain Then I’ll reupload the video too!

My interview with Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 from yesterday was interrupted by power outages. So I put together one piece which includes all 3 parts of our conversation. This is the complete & improved version, which I also uploaded on Spotify. Enjoy! 👇 cc: BTCPay Server Ark Labs

yet again Wei Dai likes Arkade pre-confirmed balances don't bear cost (economic finality), only settlements do (bitcoin finality)

There will be gaslightning that the penny stonks are just "corporate adoption". There is nothing wrong with corporations buying Bitcoin for their treasury. There is however something wrong with pumping shell corps using the narrative of a "more profitable" version of Bitcoin.

Soon enough every lender will be able to streamline, at minimum, escrow functions at scale without the costly tradeoff of executing contract operations onchain. Level up w/ Arkade 👾

One of the most valuable things I've learned from joining a crew of Italianos is the term "Fugazi".

We're so back

Still a work in progress, but the Arkade documentation does a very fair and succinct job at formalizing the threat model for Ark based protocols.

Do stuff just because it is fun, do not waste your time! Have fun in something useful tho

New Version of BTCPay Server 2.1.6 is out! New wallet features, payment request improvements & bug fixes!

Laurent Liquid isn't really self custodial, but at least the BTCPay provider isn't the custodian. And in the future it will be possible to swap it to something like Ark vutxos, removing the custody completely. It seems complicated, but the UX (see the demo) is quite good. And samrock