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Re:Verkle Trees by Ar-Curunir on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:01PM (#27561644)
> MAST, taproot, Schnorr sigs. Lightning

I don’t mean to shit on the work to integrate this stuff, but a lot of it is either something that other chains already had (better versions of), or that other chains don’t need (eg: lightning)

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Re:Verkle Trees by randomhodler84 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:27PM (#27561891)
“Better”? Features like? There is this narrative that bitcoin is old and not innovating.

It’s like TCP/IP. It is, just as tcp/ip innovates in a careful way.

If you think any chain doesn’t need a layer 2 overlay, which ultimately is the only way to scale tx’s. Anything else is kicking the can down the road.

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Re:Verkle Trees by Ar-Curunir on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:24PM (#27571543)
Lightning barely works, and it’s completely outclassed by roll ups based on validity or fraud proofs.
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