Sounds good Jack.

This sounds really interesting! I really hated balancing my channels. Really hope Arc will work, but this needs to be decided by way more clever guys than me. 😁 nostr:nevent1qqs9npqsj0nllh6qk68xhjtdqe4ae303cl2hp40787hunqax02l5slgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw...

Finally someone is thinking about the UX! I’m already on board

Go go go, we need more development on layer 2.

It sounds interesting. Liquidity management is something that the vast majority of people will never do. Any solution that helps to alleviate that pain point is worth exploring.

A second layer protocol without the pain points of liquidity management 👀 nostr:nevent1qqs9npqsj0nllh6qk68xhjtdqe4ae303cl2hp40787hunqax02l5slgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9upzpq35r7yzkm4te5460u00jz4djcw0qa90zku7739qn7wj4ralhe4zqvzqqqqqqyd5ean9

Pretty wild coming from a self professed former big blocker.

Sounds interesting 👀

This is neither a replacement for Lightning, nor for cashu/fedi schemes. It's a 3rd "thing". nostr:nevent1qqs9npqsj0nllh6qk68xhjtdqe4ae303cl2hp40787hunqax02l5slgprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7q3qsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63qxpqqqqqqzjy6kpy

This seems cool.

Where does the liquidity come from? Are the ASP decentralized?

I wrote quick, likely wrong, analysis here https://stacker.news/items/181561

I love the name Ark and his reasoning behind selecting that name.🌊🫂💜🧡 “Now back to Ark, I named it Ark because it resonated with Noah’s Ark to save plebs from chainalaysis companies and custodians. Self-custodial Lightning doesn’t work for obvious reasons, and chainalaysis compani...

Wen Alicia and bob diagram?

I could never keep up with all the chaos in this ecosystem even if I was informed. Just want to occupy my happy place in a corner doing what I do best. nostr:nevent1qqs9npqsj0nllh6qk68xhjtdqe4ae303cl2hp40787hunqax02l5slgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpq35r7yzkm4te5460u00jz4djcw0qa90zku7739qn7w...

🤔

He eloquently put the subconscious frictions I felt with Lightning into words.

Haven’t dove into this yet, hopefully not too good to be true… sounds amazing.

Did anyone test this out? Do wallets exists?

From the way the article reads there will be one centralized server holding liquidity and processing transactions. Surely that can't be the plan... It's also not clear to me how this server will ensure anonymity to users. Looking forward to learning more about this. I always expected to see comp...

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Even if this specific solution doesn't work, I think it's great to see the North Star of "we need and want something like this"

This sounds really good. Even if Ark isn't the solution, his criticisms of Lightning are solid. Lightning can't possibly be the apex L2.

zkCSV provides far better privacy (no mixing, just ZKP) and frees up block space significantly. TXs are 15x smaller than normal, just needs a UASF.

Prepare to be Drivepilled.

Ark and Enigma are the most exciting ideas in bitcoin right now.

This is amazing When CTV?

The only downside is the insane capital liquidity requirement for the ASP. I'd guess there will be a huge capital fee per round. Consider this, in Wasabi 2.0 we currently have a remix rate of ~50, meaning that every 1 btc that freshly enters the coinjoin, does on average 50 consecutive rounds. Th...

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021694.html

Gosh we really are living in the future nostr:nevent1qqs9npqsj0nllh6qk68xhjtdqe4ae303cl2hp40787hunqax02l5slgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyzprg8ug9dh2hnft5lc7ly92m9su7p6279deaaz2p8ua928ml0n2yqcyqqqqqqggl6aqj