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Another explanation of how Ark worksnehanarula.org/2025/05/20/ark.html
1314 sats \ 6 comments \ @k00b 6h bitcoin
Ark is a design to scale payments on Bitcoin. There are several explanations out there about Ark, but I couldn’t understand most of them, so I wrote my own. I also summarize how different opcode soft forks can help improve Ark properties, and compare Ark with other designs to address scalability like Lightning and rollups.
This is by @neha on X.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 5h
Ark is so above my brain. What gets me is the expiration of the VTXOs
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138 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h
That's the scam, make a Rube Goldberg machine to smuggle trust, call it scaling so you can astroturf a virtue signaling army to shill your shitcoin that you pretend is Bitcoin
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 3h
Why it is hard for me to get behind this project when after acquiring it the asset can vanish due to time decay which is a crazy concept when it comes to a digital asset claiming to scale bitcoin
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145 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h
There's an inherent liveness tradeoff once you leave the security of chain, lightning has this risk too, hense watchtowers
Arks entire positioning though is to be better than lightning, but since the challenges lightning faces are inherent to Bitcoin itself, they just lie
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Dkryptoenth 5h
Onyé Oshi... 🤣
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h
@remindme in 6 hours
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