In the race for Bitcoin scaling, everyone seems more enthusiastic about marketing gimmicks rather than facing reality. Countless projects claim to be "Bitcoin L2," but the security assumptions they rely on are no different from Ethereum, essentially a combination of federated bridges and sidechains. @GOATRollup has chosen a harder yet more honest path. Recently, they laid it all out clearly: all current projects, including their own, are strictly speaking still just Bitcoin sidechains. The difference is that GOAT is building a true infrastructure, BitVM2, that can inherit Bitcoin's security, rather than just changing names and continuing down the old path. This is not a sign of weakness, but a respect for the facts. Bitcoin does not need to be hijacked by marketing slogans; what it deserves is a technical engineering that aligns with its original spirit. After two years of research and refinement, the BitVM2 white paper has been officially released. There are no shortcuts here,...
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